Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

“I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. “It’s antidisestablishmentarianism.” Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed. “Is ...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious needs to be taken down a few notches. The moment that Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews danced to the nearly unreadable word in Mary ...

Do you know what the longest word is in the English language? Some of you might say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. And, you’d be technically correct. (I’d really like to hear someone ...

Most people walk around believing they have a pretty good sense of how English works. We learn the alphabet, pick up some spelling rules, and memorize how to pronounce tricky words, feeling confident ...