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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).

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

Filtration Software Censored the Word Bone at a Paleontology Conference

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Filtration Software Censored the Word Bone at a Paleontology Conference

12 Surprising Facts About Dictionaries

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12 Surprising Facts About Dictionaries

What Exactly Is a Gigafire?

Wildfires have reached historic proportions this year.

What Exactly Is a Gigafire?

The Reason It's So Hard to Spot Your Own Typos

We have a difficult time catching our own typing mistakes.

Where Did the Term October Surprise Originate?

Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in the White House's Blue Room on Reagan's inauguration day in 1981.

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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17 Euphemisms for Sex From the 1800s

He's probably suggesting they engage in some amorous congress.

8 Frightening Facts about Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw

John La Farge's title illustration for The Turn of the Screw in Collier's Weekly, 1898.

Why Do We Say 'Trick or Treat' on Halloween?

"Give us candy, or else!"

11 Common English Words from Native American Languages

Avocado is the Anglicized version of ahuacatl.

More Than 650 New Words Have Been Added to Dictionary.com—Here Are 50 of Them

Online dictionaries can add words a little more quickly than their printed counterparts.

14 Facts About International Talk Like A Pirate Day

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8 British Expressions, Explained

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20 Fall Harvest Words and Their Origins

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