One of my friends has a habit of announcing, out of the blue, his word of the day. Once it was poltroon. This prompted me to think of all those words that ought to be rescued from the penumbra of ...

How often have you thought there ought to be a word to describe something but there isn't? Well, there's a new word book that does just that. Larry talks with author Barbara Wallraff about "Word ...

There is an old joke that goes something like: how long does it take your mother to change a light bulb? The punchline: “Never mind dear, just go out and have a good time. I’ll just stay here in the ...