In 1994, while Garg was a Case Western Reserve student, he started a simple mailing list of one interesting word a day, beginning at the end of the alphabet with "zephyr," which means a gentle breeze.

Two seemingly unrelated words are making headlines this week: tariffs and ghibli.The first follows sweeping trade legislation ...

Can you think of alternative words that you could use for each – words that are more precise, lively or interesting? Consider what the reader should feel about the place, person or topic that ...

Stafford responded to that later in the day, telling the L.A. Times with a chuckle: "Les is a man of interesting words. I love Les. Whatever he wants to say, he can say. I just know I'm excited to ...