There's been a "mass exodus of Syrians," one of NPR.org's headlines declared earlier this month. President Obama said in August that the U.S. should boost domestic energy production and rely less on ...

In the “Ghostbusters” movies, the eponymous heroes blast ghosts and otherworldly beings with their proton packs, and the ghosts explode into a mess of slimy green ghost goo. This goo is called ...

The word pleonasm describes phrases that use more words than necessary to get across a point. Sometimes a pleonasm is used for effect. Other times it's just redundant. Here are some examples people ...

Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week’s word: ...

A couple of columns ago we discussed “unnecessary” words, taking a swipe at legalese in particular for piling word upon phrase to say the simplest things. There's a particular term for the use of ...

Here's a word that a search indicates may never have been said on NPR: "pleonasm." But we and other news outlets put pleonasms on the air and on the Web every day. What is a pleonasm? "The use of more ...

FAIRBANKS — Pleonasm, “the use of more words than those necessary to express an idea,” has occasionally been justly applied to yours truly, for verbal restraint goes right out the window when ...