WORDS

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.

You keep using that word…

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

Wow your friends during your Olympic watch party with these winning, weird, and wonderful Olympic words and their origins.

While 'awesome' was going on its journey from bad to good, 'awful' was going in the opposite direction.

It's difficult enough to write a sentence that doesn't contain the popular vowel. (There are eight right there.)

Finally!

The vast history of English has more than a few options for describing the non-musical kind of funkiness.

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.