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Nine Everyday Sayings That Are a Total Home Run (Thanks to Baseball)

Baseball isn’t just America’s pastime — it’s also a linguistic MVP. Over the past 150 years, the sport has enriched our everyday conversations with phrases that most people use without…
African American man in hat listening to a video essay in Words Matter gallery
From the Founder

Words that Wound

When we started to plan the exhibits we’d have at Planet Word, we always knew that one gallery would be called “Words Matter,” a room where visitors would hear real…

Founder Ann Friendman talking to a reporter
From the Founder

Freedom of Speech

While planning Planet Word, I had to become familiar with a lot of new — at least for me — topics and the often-unfamiliar words and phrases that applied to…