Climate change or global warming? Pandemic flu or bird flu? Learning or training? Should we choose the 'correct' words or the words people actually use?According to Google, every month an average of ...

ATLANTA — Less than 24 hours after little Tripp Halstead passed away, his mother somehow still managed to be gracious. We spoke only a minute or so in which time she could only say — through tears — ...

Do you remember the children’s rhyme “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?” It is one of the worst pieces of advice given to children and the cause of countless adult ...

I’ve written before about the evolving language and how newspapers are often slower to adjust than society at large. We now use the singular “they” when subjects prefer it and capitalize the “B” in ...

These words generally diminish and minimize, at a time when speaking purposefully is key, says author and leadership coach Terre Short. It’s probably safe to say that few people were sad to leave the ...

The biggest challenge financial advisors are facing in the pandemic era is communicating the right language to their clients and using it at a high level of sensitivity across digital platforms, an ...

Dear Carolyn: I married my high school sweetheart when I was 19. We were both mature for our ages, so we made a plan to get educations, jobs and to one day support a family. Fifteen years later, we're ...