China’s popular social media platform Weibo is cracking down on the use of homonyms and deliberately misspelt words to evade the country’s strict online censorship. The Twitter-like service said in a ...

Everyone knows what synonyms and antonyms are (and just in case you don't, synonyms are words that mean the same thing as another word, and antonyms are words that mean the opposite). But do you know ...

Generally, we use the word “homonym” incorrectly, applying it too widely and covering lots of different linguistic terms. You’re doing it, but its probably not your fault. Most people were given the ...

Let’s home in on homonyms – two words that are identical in spelling and sound but have different origins and meanings. For instance, the “bear” that refers to an animal is a homonym of the “bear” ...