When I work with patients, I encourage them to feel as free as possible to say whatever they need to say, using whatever words they need. As you might imagine, this often leads to the occasional (and, ...

Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.

Linguists tell us that the Anglo-Saxons gave us most of the words we use today. They provided most of the clean ones and nearly every four-letter one you use after slamming a door on your thumb or ...

Challenge from December 10: From Adam Cohen of Brooklyn, New York: Take the names of two birds, four letters each. Place these names side by side, then move the first letter of the string to the end ...

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. Challenge from December 31: Think of a familiar two-word phrase, in the form, BLANK- OIL. And another ...