Words like "bat," "desert," "wind," and "clip" all have multiple meanings but are confusingly spelled the same way.

English is filled with words that look alike or sound alike (or both), but mean very different things — so it's easy to get confused and use the wrong word at the wrong moment. As "word nerds" and ...

Everyone in our society should be very aware that there are two fundamentally different meanings of the word racism. Confusion about which meaning is being employed adds to the confusion in how we ...

Quote of the day: In the history of ideas, few thinkers moved as seamlessly between mathematics, physics and theology as 17th-century French savant Blaise Pascal. Remembered for his scientific rigour ...