When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry examines fictional language, ...

As the great philosopher David Burge once intoned, “Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough ...

Paging through the archives, you discover the spirit of Stanford’s many word nerds through the ages. For example, the prim formality of the 1930s announcement gave way to the boisterous ’70s.