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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wondered where all the weird words in English come from? For example, when someone refers to the presence of small ...

The history of words like 'blog' Like scientist, any number of useful words and phrases began as little more than quips, wisecracks, and throwaway lines. When Andy Warhol reportedly observed over a ...

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First in a series of occasional short takes on unusual courses in local schools. For a few hours every other afternoon, Latin and Greek roots rain on Phil Rosenthal's etymology class at Park View High ...

The Middle East’s cultural influence on the world is vast and enduring – evident not only in food, fashion, mathematics and medicine, but also in the global lingua franca, the English language that ...

'Bacne' could join Oxford English Dictionary, but where did the word come from? "Pimple" is a word that has been around as long as the written word, but "zit" originated in the 1960's. Getty Images ...

English can be a really beautiful, poetic language, with words and phrases inspired and created by great authors and poets like Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Sylvia Plath. But ...

A new book exploring the origins of common food terms — from bialy to lima bean to bibimbap — is a fascinating history of how we eat and cook. By Kim Severson Used judiciously, the snappy tidbits of ...