Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt. The ...

Call it “verbing.” Just as medieval alchemists sought to change base metals into gold, modern writers and speakers change nouns (“incentive,” “sunscreen,” “gift”) into verbs. The preceding examples ...

The dog days of summer are blanketing us, so it's a perfect time for our Annual Collection of Pet Peeves. Please send me your current favorite examples of poorly written or spoken language. In a ...

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Before 2006, I never gave much thought to nominalizations — noun forms like “beauty” and “the scheduling” that at heart are really adjectives like “beautiful” or verbs like “to schedule.” I was ...

New research demonstrates that even before infants begin to talk in sentences, they are paying careful attention to the way a new word is used in conversations, and they learn new words from this ...

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