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What Is a Crony?

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What Is a Crony?

What Does ‘Cabin Fever’ Mean? Plus Other Fever Words

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What Does ‘Cabin Fever’ Mean? Plus Other Fever Words

Watch Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek Swear Up a Storm In These R-Rated Outtakes

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Watch Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek Swear Up a Storm In These R-Rated Outtakes

11 Wonderful Old Words for Lunch

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda) by Luis Meléndez, circa 1772

11 Wonderful Old Words for Lunch

Where Did the Term Lame Duck Originate?

Not a lame duck.

You’re Probably Pronouncing Nevada All Wrong

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12 Notable English Language Mistakes

She wrote "sneak peak" instead of "sneak peek."

10 Untranslatable Words That Perfectly Describe How You're Feeling in 2020

Use these words for feelings you can't express in your own language.

The 9 Best Shots Fired in the Oxford Comma Wars

Are you pro or anti Oxford comma?

The Memrise Language Learning App Is 28 Percent Off Today

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10 Words and Phrases That Came From TV Shows

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Wa Wa Wee Wa: The Origin of Borat's Favorite Catchphrase

Wa wa wee wa! Sacha Baron Cohen is back in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020).

Filtration Software Censored the Word Bone at a Paleontology Conference

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12 Surprising Facts About Dictionaries

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9 Innocent-Sounding Words with Surprisingly Naughty Origins

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17 Scary Sayings for 'Ghost' From Across the United States

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