Due to its rapid success, the brand name Xerox became interchangeable with the word copy, much like the brand Kleenex has become synonymous ... Asking a colleague to save something on a disk will ...

Think twice before you use words like “lackaday” or “nonplussed”—they may mean something quite different than what you’d assume.

Sound symbolism is when a word sounds like what it means. One type is onomatopoeia; for example, words that describe a cat’s meow or a rooster’s crow are similar across many languages.