For those who think the world is obsessed with "time," an Oxford dictionary added support to the theory Thursday in announcing that the word is the most often used noun in the English language. "The" ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Don’t know about you, but I think we’re having an “overwhelm” of “overwhelm” used as a noun. “Overwhelm” is ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.

Picture a dictionary that doesn't need words to get the point across. So Boatman thought he'd do something similar: use crowdsourcing to gather an army of people to define words, but instead of using ...

Vijay Iyer wears many hats. Pianist, composer, scholar, public intellectual, and artist, he is a recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and holds the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.