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New Online Translator Teaches Humans How to Speak 'Elephant'

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The Funniest Word in the English Language? 'Booty,' According to New Survey

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11 Obscure Expressions of Surprise We Should Bring Back

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38 Word Usage Mistakes Even Smart People Make

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You Can Now View a 3D Model of the Rosetta Stone Online

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10 Long-Forgotten Expressions To Drop Into Conversation

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A Chinese Museum Is Offering Cash to Whoever Can Decipher These 3000-Year-Old Inscriptions

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6 Eponyms Named After the Wrong Person

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23 Slang Terms You Only Understand if You Work in Antarctica

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What's the Longest Word in the World? Here are 12 of Them

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12 Things Called ‘French’ In English and Whether They're Actually French

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A Chicago Library Needs Help Transcribing 17th-Century Spellbooks

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