Language Adventures

Let’s talk about interjections – those quick, often-overlooked non-words we toss into conversations.

Today’s Language Adventures takes us to a word whose time is ripe. It is the perfect linguistic device for our expanding vocabulary.

Sometimes, using two rarely used words together will help you to remember both words, their meanings, and their usage.

Although you might think ‘taradiddle’ is nearly archaic, it has been used as recently as J.K. Rowling and holds a place of honor on Merriam-Webster’s list of weird words.

Anaphora is the repetition of the beginning words of a sentence. It is a powerful rhetorical device typically used to emphasize a point or elicit an emotion.

Piggyback marketing implies a business relationship between two or more companies. It is a cost-effective collaboration to promote each other’s products or services

Typeractivity is a word that is slowly gaining acceptance but still puzzles my spell-checker. It is a playful twist on the term hyperactivity…

Did you know there are two types of tickling?

Cyber kidnapping popped up on my feed from...

According to Cross-Word Solver, gaslighting was the word most searched for its meaning in the United States during 2023.