12 'X-Files' Terms and the Truth Behind Them
To "Mulder it out" is a phrase that should definitely be used more often.
To "Mulder it out" is a phrase that should definitely be used more often.
Girl Scout Cookie Naming Lore: Would You Like Samoa?
What they mean and how to remember the difference.
Words suggest one thing, but their histories tell us another.
Polish up on this list of words and phrases from Robert Burns’s complete works. Highlighting the imagination of his Scots language, they are ripe for revival by Robbie revelers old and new.
Motel, brunch, and sitcom are obvious. But these portmanteaux are undercover.
Terms that first appeared in print in 1915 reveal something about life a hundred years ago. Although the war in Europe left its mark on the lexicon, there are also signs of the changing times in arts and culture.
The U.S. words of the year for 2014 included vape, culture, and #blacklivesmatter. But what about the rest of the world? Here are the word of the year winners from 13 other countries.
There were a number of attention-getting words this year, from bae, to normcore, to vape. But a word need not be shiny and new to get special attention.
The editors at OxfordDictionaries.com just added 1,000 new words to their online dictionary.
Cartoons, comics, and newspaper comic strips might seem like an unusual source of new words and phrases, but here are the stories behind 10 times when precisely that happened.
Words are often formed by mishearings, inversion of sounds, dropping and adding of sounds, and other all-too-human errors.
Whether it's Joe Schmo, Fred Nurk, or Vasya Pupkin, every country needs a way to talk about just “some guy.”
From our friends at Vocabulary.com, here are words describing people's behavior that are easy to confuse with other words, or easy to be confused about, period.
From bears and storks to singing wolves and castrated sheep, all 16 of the words listed here have surprising zoological origins.
They might seem straightforward on the surface, but hidden behind them is some remarkable quirk or bizarre piece of trivia that sets them apart.
Sauce has come a long way from its original noun meaning, passing through idiom, to adjective, to adjective-forming suffix. Still, it has kept in touch with its roots.