As a follow-up to my piece on skunked terms, it might be worthwhile to consider another type of communication that goes by an animal name: weasel words. The term first appeared in print in 1900, in a ...

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This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. As a child, I assumed lava would play a bigger part in my life than it has. Yet I haven’t seen lava in person once. I feel ...

I wasn’t going to write another column about Donald Trump this month. Rather, I was going to write about what we old-timey ad guys called “weasel words,” words whose purpose was (still is) to deceive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Stiller promotes his movie "Tropic Thunder," deemed by some as "problematic" for its portrayal of certain characters, in Paris ...

To the editor: Thanks to Robin Abcarian for her column on the weasel word “problematic.” For years the use — now ubiquitous — of the word itself been deeply, well, problematic. The best demonstration ...