Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt. The ...

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Please note that this is a little more technical than my previous articles – sometimes I need to let my inner-geek out. Simply because RESTful APIs are based on resources and use the HTTP verbs (GET, ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. There’s an ad out right now for Google’s Chromebook laptop with a slogan that says, “Switch to a new way to laptop.” While ...

It's Language Creep Week here at the Wire, so we take you now to Intelligent Life, where Anthony Gardner discusses the practice of "verbing." That's taking a noun and using it as a verb. Texting.

"We have to turn the concept of gratitude from a noun into a verb." —Meerabelle Dey I like using more verbs and fewer nouns. It underscores the expression "that the name is not the thing.” Nouns and ...

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March 16 -- Buckminster Fuller once said, "God is a verb." He did not mean that literally, of course, but metaphorically. I think he was trying to say that love is action. He did NOT go on to use that ...