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The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang pinpoints comedian Jimmy Durante as the first person to use this meaty metaphor.

Here are 20 American towns that have really cut the cord from the sources of their names.

Sometime around the 7th century, a grammarian got fed up and started collecting all the annoying mistakes that people kept making in Latin. He wrote them up in the 'Appendix Probi,' a straightforward list of the “say this, not that” variety.

Is it moist? It’s probably moist.

Make sure to use them the next time you dither.

You might be one of a lucky type who rarely attract bites, or you might be someone skeeters love to feast on—in which case, you’ll want plenty of ammunition for name-calling. Here are a few choice terms for mosquitoes courtesy of the Dictionary of America

The University of Toronto-based project aims to define every English word used between 600 CE and 1150.

It pays to know your timber beasts from your savages.

Gene Roddenberry taught the world that infinitives are ripe for splitting.

The skin is the largest organ in the human body, covering a surface area of nearly 2 square meters. Skin covers a great deal of the English language, too, if we look to its many skin-related words, expressions, and idioms.

Though the terms are often used interchangeably, there is a difference between the two. And it's all in the shape of things.

These famous folks managed to convey a great deal of meaning through just one word.