If you were asked to guess the words people use when they're most at risk for suicide, you'd be right to think of obvious nouns and verbs like die, overdose and, yes, the word suicide itself.

What words are OK to use when addressing women in a professional ... it seems likely that many who might have been at risk of using it will steer clear. But other words lurk.

As NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports, the words officials use when they talk about flood risk can be misleading. KELLY: If you live in a flood prone area, as tens of millions of Americans do ...