For such a short speech, Abraham Lincoln used an awful lot of the same words. Why? Hint: it's not for lack of vocabulary. His repetitive phrasing was intentional as it emphasized the points he made...

Lincoln crammed the words "we," "our," and "us" into this speech as many times as humanly possible, and for good reason. By stressing that the pain of loss and work ahead was shared by everyone fro...

Contrasting language is usually a wee bit difficult to parse. For example, when someone says that they love you and hate you in the same breath, they're usually a) Gnash b) in a soap opera or c) in...