“Tum, tum, tum dee dum, Baby’s beating on his drum.” That’s a line I repeat at least three times a day at the moment — from Page 6 of the Little Golden Books classic Baby Listens. And usually, charmed ...

Our picturesque country of Costa Rica boasts a diversity of natural wonders, from lush rainforests to stunning beaches. This gives rise to the question – why do foreigners seem to take liberties with ...

In 2 studies, 2-year-old children learned a novel word modeled as a proper noun (e. g., "This is Zav") for an animate stuffed toy. Children who learned the word for a familiar object (i. e., one for ...

So in another thread, I wanted to start a sentence with the word iPad. However, I couldn't figure out how to do the capitalization without it looking stupid and wrong. So I turn to you, Ars. My heart ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.

IN everything we do involving other people, we make use of communication in some form. Of the different forms of communication, language – either spoken or written – is the most common. We use words ...