A field guide of sorts to the language of the wild world— an ode to the places afforded to us by nature—that includes thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland, and ...

From aquabob to zawn, writer Robert Macfarlane's collection of unusual, achingly poetic words for nature creates a lexicon we all can learn from. Years ago, nature writer extraordinaire Robert ...

M ost words have a rather abstract connection to the things they describe. The word yellow is not actually yellow. The word ...

In Joseph Conrad's great nautical writing, Adrian Morgan shows us the many ways he has written about and described the ...

Acronyms, the initial letters of words, are becoming so increasingly common that it is now standard practice for publications ...