All words belong to a word class. It’s that word’s type: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and exclamations. These are all word classes. Consider the ...

Robert wrote to us with the following question about the word "class," and a great lead-in to its entry into the Glossary of Confusing Words: Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists the ...

The afternoon of Jan. 6 took a confusing turn for Tristan McGarity, 13, and his classmates when their teacher at Dobie Junior High School used a word in class that he was taught never to say. It was ...

Emory University has removed a law professor from the classroom as it investigates student reports that he used the N-word in a class discussion earlier this month. The professor, Paul Zwier, director ...