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14 Common Food and Drink Words With Arabic Origins
A surprising number of common English food and beverage words have Arabic backgrounds.
The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is 'They'
A big night for the gender-neutral singular pronoun.
How Bathroom Stick-Figures Became Universal Symbols
Love them or hate them, we all know what these figures are supposed to mean.
11 Words With Meanings That Have Changed Drastically Over Time
How Roald Dahl Came Up With the Nonsense Words in The BFG
Author Roald Dahl was famous for the nonsensically whimsical language he created in his books, but the origin of those words has its roots in tragedy.
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year is Ism
Merriam-Webster chooses their winner by tracking which words people look up the most over the course of the year in their online dictionary. This year, the most noticeable increases in lookups happened across a whole cluster of words that shared something
ASL Version of Rudolph Shows Amazing Storytelling Skills
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51 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent
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51 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent
Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find the perfect word (or 'le mot juste') for a particular situation. Here are a bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.
10 Words The Simpsons Made Famous
After hundreds of episodes—and with no end in sight—'The Simpsons' has changed the way we talk to one another.
Autocorrect Your Way to New Vocabulary With This App
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When Texting, One Little Thing Makes a Big Difference
The difference between sincere and insincere may be just one little punctuation mark.
Lowkey: A Word That's Lowkey Snuck Into Our Vocabulary
How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication.
15 Basic Words That Are Etymological Mysteries
All words had to start somewhere—but sometimes, after much searching and analyzing, no satisfying origin explanation can be found.
The Past and Future of Magnetic Poetry, the Populist Product that Began With a Sneeze
The inventor of Magnetic Poetry was thrust into his life's work by one well-timed sneeze.
How One Institution is Helping to Revive the Lakota Language
Without a new generation of Speakers, the Native American language could die out in a few generations.
The Origins of 11 Famous Star Trek Lines
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7 Things You Should Know About Sign Language
Unlike other "languages," sign language—be it American or otherwise—is a visual language, and therefore, can take a long time to master.
Theory Suggests Australian Accent Developed Over Drinks
So on top of influences of Aboriginal, English, Irish, and German, the accent may have a few pints to thank.
New Nutella Campaign Celebrates the Many Dialects of Italy
Nutella engaged a panel of dialect scholars to put together a guide to 135 characteristic expressions from 16 regions of Italy.
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Some common words that usually don’t have a whiff of tommyrot are also in the BS lexicon.