Hymnody and sacred music, long the domain of hymnologists and musicologists, have become hot topics in scholarship about American religion, and the “worship wars” of the 1980s and ’90s have sparked a ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster, takes readers inside the English language with her witty and sly Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. Lovers of language will find dives ...

It may be a good time to rethink whether swear words or curse words really qualify as such anymore. I mean we hear them with such frequency that they are almost indiscernible from the other regular ...