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The origins of these words are hiding right under your nose.

Looking for a way to spice up your love language? Snuggle up with these 14 idioms, slang terms, and sayings from the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) on how to get it on all over the United States.

'Binge-watch,' 'humblebrag,' and 'Seussian' were all included in the more than 1000 new entries.

Planet Word will be open to visitors of all ages and language backgrounds.

America is a worldwide brand of sorts, but it doesn’t carry the same connotations everywhere.

Many of the names from a galaxy far, far away have their origins in the real world.

The title was made up as a way to avoid commenting on the marital status of a woman.

Here’s a sampling of terms that went overboard. Be their lexical lifeboat.

It's human nature to conceive of abstract ideas through more immediate, concrete experiences—which is to say, through metaphors. Most of the words we have for abstract concepts began this way.

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And how did they get that name?

On Halloween, witches and werewolves, ghosts and ghouls, and demons and devils stalk the streets for tricks or treats. But the real tricks and treats—at least for the horror-loving word nerds among us—might just be the strange and far-flung origins of the