I know I’m not for everyone. I am not a wordsmith who’s known for a vocabulary that requires a dictionary to pull in readers. When I write, I tend to avoid “big” words because I don’t talk like that.

Today is National Wordsmith Day which, as this website states, “celebrates the weavers of words.” The site elaborates the celebration as follows, “If you have ever read something and it stuck in your ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before ...