Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. Last week, a federal judge found that Apple Inc. had been engaging in “anticompetitive ...

Baltimore’s biggest button box is the aging but still vigorous Morton Schenk Co., the place where tailors head for elusive little circles of pearl, plastic, rhinestone, bone and metal. And let’s not ...

Jean Behringer’s house isn’t just home to a 10,000-button collection. It’s also the repository of numerous unpublished stories about buttons, clothes decorated with buttons, books about buttons old ...