'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

I've been working since I was five!