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

While long words don’t pose a physical threat, the anxiety they trigger can produce real symptoms: trembling, headaches, sweating. These issues can complicate daily life and highlight how little ...

The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (ironically a super long word) or simply sesquipedalophobia. It’s a real phobia tied to ...

For my purposes here and now, I would make the case for a regular, easy to pronounce, word as being the longest word. You may have heard this before, but I’m reminding you now, that “smiles” is, by ...

Professor of psychology Daniel Oppenheimer is a hero. He has finally confirmed our lingering suspicion that many of the students using big words in precept are, in fact, pretentious twits. As reported ...

After repeatedly slipping in the “N-word,” Trump seemed to reference Russian President Vladimir Putin and then proceeded to ...