Thanks and congratulations to The Herald editorial staff for introducing to me a new word in its headline for a recent column by George Will. The word is “micro-irritants.” Whatever was meant by it at ...

Old languages need new words. The Tlingit language is still spoken today, which means speakers of the Alaska Native language need words for technologies and ideas that would not have been known to ...

The challenge last time was to come up with a catchy name for the words that you collectively create here — and that’s the challenge this time too, because I’m on vacation and am too busy snorkeling, ...