University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Politics is a language game: in any given context, who gets what, when and how invariably depends on how things with no ...

As a follow-up to my piece on skunked terms, it might be worthwhile to consider another type of communication that goes by an animal name: weasel words. The term first appeared in print in 1900, in a ...

For the last few years, reasonable people of various ideological leanings have been lamenting the scourge that is the word “problematic.” Cropping up particularly in online discussions about social ...

To many, Democratic VP hopeful Tim Walz’s use of the word ‘misspoke’ came across as an attempt to weasel out of what was at best an embellishment and at worst an outright lie. To many, Walz’s use of ...

For the last few years, reasonable people of various ideological leanings have been lamenting the scourge that is the word “problematic.” Cropping up particularly in online discussions about social ...

The Victorian Greens have accused Jacinta Allan’s Labor Government of weasel words and kicking the can down the road on corruption after the government failed to fully support a single recommendation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Stiller promotes his movie "Tropic Thunder," deemed by some as "problematic" for its portrayal of certain characters, in Paris ...

Recent news reports quoted former Equifax CEO Richard Smith, when appearing before Congress, as saying, “Mistakes were made.” Besides vying for Understatement of the Year, that statement is yet ...

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This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. As a child, I assumed lava would play a bigger part in my life than it has. Yet I haven’t seen lava in person once. I feel ...

As a child, I assumed lava would play a bigger part in my life than it has. Yet, I haven’t seen lava in person once. I feel like I overprepared myself for lava and underprepared myself for scheduling ...