One of the coolest aspects of language, any language, is the creativity and productivity of its speakers. Language allows you to express the abundance and infinity of your thoughts with any combination of sounds you want. And if there is no word for something you want to say, you simply create that word on the …
30 Brilliant New Words We Should Add To A Dictionary Immediately. Read More »
It’s guaranteed that you have or will run into some of these Latin terms in anything including the lightest reading. That’s because they’re everywhere. In newspapers, textbooks, manuals, et cetera. They are used in, inter alia, academic writing, text messaging, and, quite extensively, law documents. So, they are, ipso facto, very important to know. Ergo, we thought it’s a …
77 Common Latin Words and Phrases Used in English That You Should Know. Read More »
Let me let you on a little secrete. No two words mean exactly the same thing. You might, at first glance, think that the adjectives “hard” and “difficult” are perfect synonyms, but they’re not. I know you don’t believe this but a little example will help. Can we swap these adjectives in an example like …
21 Words That People Think Are Synonyms, But They Are Actually Not. Read More »
A palindrome is a word or a phrase that reads the same backward as forward. Words in themselves are fun and amusing let alone if they can read from both ends. The fact that these words are palindromes is totally coincidental, but a little bit of creativity went into forming the latter part of the …
28 Palindrome Words And Phrases That Are the Same Backwards and Forwards. Read More »
Sometimes similarities may lead us to think that certain things are identical and therefore we tend to give them the same names. When we look closely, however, we find they are actually a little different but most of the time we still give them the same names. While some languages try to correct this over …
24 Things Most People Think Are The Same But They Are Actually Different. Read More »
I was surprised to find out that there were words I have been saying my whole life that were actually acronyms. Acronyms are everywhere and most of us use them all the time but not everyone knows what they stand for, like LASER or IKEA. We have combined in this article some of the most …
29 Of The Most Common Acronyms And What They Stand For. Read More »
I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of homophones before. They’re those words that are pronounced the same way but have different meanings and spellings, and this is why they confuse a lot of people. But homophones can be fun sometimes and because of them, we have jokes like this: What happens when a frog’s car breaks down? …
54 Clever Illustrations of Words That Sound The Same But Have Different Meanings. Read More »
No language has all of the words, and English is no exception. While you can express the complex feeling of “insecurity, fear, concern, and envy over relative lack of possessions, status or something of great personal value, particularly in reference to a comparator, a rival, or a competitor.” with one word (i.e. jealousy), some other …
41 Fascinating words from other languages we should definitely import to English. Read More »
What makes languages so amazingly different is that they use different words to describe the same things. When you speak more than one language, you realize that words mean different things in different languages. Sometimes an innocent word in one language can sound really rude in another, and that’s where the real fun is. All …
24 Non-English Words That Sound Dirty But Are Actually Innocent. Read More »
Words carry a certain social weight to them and that’s what dictionaries try to hide from us. Dictionaries give us literal meanings, dry most often, that can’t capture the different ways people use words and what they intend when they use them in different contexts. HipDict is an Instagram account that humorously redefines words and adds the …
