The realization that a large number of well-educated, well-meaning Bostonians had lost the ability to talk like regular ...

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I f you’ve ever said something like “I haven’t gotten a parking ticket in years” and then immediately followed it by saying “knock on wood!” while tapping a wooden des ...

One possible explanation comes with the slang term for food. Spud was used to describe a potato as far back as the 1800s. The ...

During Round 13, Dr. Jacques Bailly, official pronouncer of the Bee and winner in 1980, called up contest 136, Harini Murali, ...

Creation has endowed man with unfathomable mysteries. Some of which are explainable while few others find their way into ...

Gelsys María García Lorenzo, a young Cuban professor at UCLA in the United States, has published an intriguing book ...

Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by literary historians for his famous Dictionary. This dictionary, formally ...

The Friday before Easter is commonly known as Good Friday in English, but people have been left baffled after learning how it got its name.

After reading Simon Winchester's Chesterman's book The Surgeon of Crowthorne, a non-fiction account of making of the Oxford English Dictionary, she began to have an inkling of how words entered ...

deemed to be the first modern English dictionary. An ornately bound book, The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin (estimate €400-€600), published in 1767 by antiquarian Walter Harris ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It might seem an innocuous tome, but when the Oxford Australian Law Dictionary was found in a NSW District Court jury room in Sydney ...