All words belong to a word class. It’s that word’s type: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and exclamations. These are all word classes. Consider the ...

A Pennsylvania professor is under school investigation after he was caught on video saying the N-word three times in a class. “When I was a young man, that was a very commonly used word. You know what ...

Robert wrote to us with the following question about the word "class," and a great lead-in to its entry into the Glossary of Confusing Words: Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists the ...

Emory University has removed a law professor from the classroom as it investigates student reports that he used the N-word in a class discussion earlier this month. The professor, Paul Zwier, director ...

A high schooler was suspended for recording her teacher saying the N-word in class. Mary Walton was suspended from Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri for three days. School officials stand ...