Communication often misfires between parents and adult daughters. Discover the hidden causes of the tension and the language ...

But, as a lover of words, there is a dark side. If I love words so much — you know, words like curmudgeon, cantankerous, ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

Massachusetts lawmakers lambasted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after another deadly shooting in Minneapolis, ...

Consider the bassoon. Across its six sections that come apart, it has about 19 holes (depending on the model) and more than ...

Sacramento Kings guard Dennis Schroder didn’t mince words when asked about the rumors swirling around his team with the Feb.

From "H Town till I drown" to "fixin' to," these Houston phrases reveal how locals talk about, think about and claim the city ...

It’s also true that, in rambling on so much, Trump reveals just about everything one could ever want to know about him—his lack of discipline, his ignorance, his vanity, insecurity, and crudeness, and ...

Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1678, and this Thursday challenge brings a straightforward five-letter word with all common letters, but its specific combination could trip up players who..

1. It has one vowel. 3. It's associated with a sound or jail. It's ... CLINK. While you're here, some more Wordle advice: Go ...

Words with a pleasant sound are easier to remember, a study by the University of Vienna has found. Invented words like "clisious", "smanious" and "drikious" were presented to around 100 ...