Whimsically weird words make conversations even more interesting and they certainly stump the whippersnappers of this world. You may have heard of the silly terms and phrases like gobbledygook, ...

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Those immortal words belong to Theodor Geisel, better known to generations of children as ...

Or you may self-identify as a nerd due to your keen interest in a certain hobby or subject, like movies or grammar or whimsical parade floats. Nerd has been part of our lexicon for at least ...

What inspired the creature who was “shortish and oldish and brownish and mossy”? The one who spoke in a voice that was “sharpish and bossy”? He spoke for the trees, yet he called them his own. All ...

For all the stories Dr. Seuss has told you, have you ever heard his own? How a boy from Springfield, Massachusetts, become the man whose work is the gold standard of children’s literature? It started ...

Nerd has been part of our lexicon for three-quarters of a century, its geeky meaning embodied by some of the most recognizable characters in film... Nerd! How the word popularized by Dr. Seuss went ...

If Seuss did have a hand in creating nerd, Aleksic said it would be what linguists call a nonce formation, meaning a word that's made for one purpose and then gets reused. "So if Dr. Seuss did coin ...