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      Simon Davis

      Simon Davis

      Joined: Oct 19, 2015

      Meet Elmer, Betty, and Chad—three of the most distinctive vintage baby names of past generations.

      6 Distinctive Vintage Baby Names for Each of the Past 7 Generations

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      6 Idioms That Came From Film And Theater

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      What Is the Trendiest Baby Name in American History?

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      Most Distinctive Last Names by State

      The results reflect each state’s demographics and immigration history.

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      6 Words You Probably Didn't Know Came From Sports

      Sports journalist and former baseball player Josh Chetwynd has compiled what appears to be an exhaustive collection in his new book The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors: A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms. Here are the sports-related origins of j

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      Most Distinctive Obituary Euphemism for 'Died' in Each State

      From over 100 different euphemisms for death.

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      10 Ancient Greek Roots That Can Trip You Up in Modern Greek

      Two thousands years is a long time. Even words that originated in ancient Greek can evolve considerably, even if their English counterparts retained the original definition.

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      21 Amusing Greek-Americanisms English Speakers Might Recognize

      Daráit!

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      The Quest to Discover the World's Books Bound in Human Skin

      The Mütter Museum recently discovered it owns the nation's largest collection of books bound in human leather—and now a research team is trying to track down the rest of the world’s examples.

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