She didn't say a word to me when she opened the door, but took me right into her living room.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

They are depressed. Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four-hundred years.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

He read it quickly. Then he put it in his pocket and ran out of the room without saying a word.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The word comes from the word "Arab" and is a design term used to describe flowing lines and geometric patterns.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Some experts believe the word for chocolate came from the Aztec word "xocolatl" which in the Nahuatl language means "bitter water."

VOA: special.2010.02.17

But we'll let Jennifer Neiman, co-owner of Cupcakes Actually in Fairfax,Virginia, have the last word about the appeal of cupcakes.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

No trip to Los Angeles is complete without seeing the word "Hollywood" spelled out in huge letters on a hillside.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

In eighteen seventy-two, a famous American word expert decided that the time had come to kill this word.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word "Lenore!"

VOA: special.2009.02.02

"Terroir" is the word used to describe how a vineyard's soil and climate give a wine special qualities.

VOA: special.2010.10.13

The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Douglas said he agreed with every word of it except,he said, seventy-five thousand soldiers would not be enough.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

"This one is "Variations on K", because this is the word kiss in every language, including sign language.

VOA: special.2009.11.04