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Familiarize yourself with these 13 expressions and your Ocean State stay will be that much smoother and more satisfying.

Why be sweltering and sunburnt when you can be swoly and birsled instead?

Dachshund is actually made up of two smaller German words (dachs, which means “badger,” and hund, which means “dog”) and it's not pronounced “dash-hound.”

Here are the stories and meanings behind 25 words, names, and titles that you might not have realized actually stand for something.

You just went to an art exhibit. Or was it an exhibition?

Loosen up your jaws, lift up those eyebrows, and throw a little phlegm behind it: These 25 common Arabic names are constantly mispronounced.

Start slipping these terms into conversation and watch as your friends bally about how great talking to you is.

If you want to know what it was like to strike up a casual conversation in this mid-20th-century decade, we’re going to tell it like it is—with a list of the words and phrases any eager beaver would know well. Ready to find out what’s buzzin’, cousin?

Add these double-letter words to your player vocabulary to take advantage of the multiples on your tile rack.

You can flout these rules, but you can't flaunt them.

Roughly 288 populated places in the U.S. bear this name. Good thing we have zip codes.

Some of our favorite words come from body parts. Scratch your 'caput' over the origins of these anatomically derived terms.