Chances are likely you’ve never heard of the term “ablaut reduplication.” It was new to me as well when a friend emailed a hard-to-read screenshot of a brief newspaper clipping. Being a word person, ...

In his angry dissent to the court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Scalia conveyed a specific kind of derision through his use of several colloquial expressions. He talked of the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Which made-up phrase sounds better to you: “sack sick” or “sick sack”? How about “make mock” or “mock make”? If ...

A typical centrosome consists of one unduplicated or duplicated centriole 1, surrounded by pericentriolar material (PCM), which is responsible for most centrosomal functions. The number of centrosomes ...

Are you frustrated by mumbo jumbo? Do you hate mish-mashes? Does it stress you out when life goes higgledy-piggledy? Even if you answered yes to all of the above, it's hard to deny the charm of ...