FOR nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to ...

Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all ...

Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School more than a century ago. The struggle for ...

The popularity of Wordle has also inspired spin-offs and clones. Variants like Quordle (four puzzles at once), Heardle (a ...

Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...

“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers ... particularly online content, considered trivial or unchallenging.

Cap/No cap: To "cap" means to "lie, to boast, or to front," according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (although ... The origin comes from online comedy creator Fanum, who is a part of streamer ...

Oxford notes that the term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024. “Polarization” is the choice of ...

They even dug into their well-worn Webster’s dictionary (or, at least, clicked on the online version) so they could footnote the word “mendacity” and explain it means “untruthfulness” or ...

Cy-Fair ISD board is considering a transgender policy that mirrors a Katy ISD policy that is the subject of a federal civil ...

“Brat” is no longer negative. It now means an “estetik” trend defined by party-animal antics, cool-girl style and messy ...