A flight attendant has turned to fundraising after she lost her job for twerking on a plane. San Francisco woman Nelle Diala, a now-former flight attendant for Alaska Airlines, shared a video to ...

Maggie St. Laurent has a steady career plan and she’s only in Grade 11. Maggie just completed a co-op course by spending one ...

The Washington Commanders switched to their current identity only recently, having had three other names prior to that.

English teachers might have told students the word "each" is pronoun that gets a singular verb, but that's only part of the ...

A tort is a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which victims may seek damages or an injunction, the Merriam-Webster dictionary says. Idaho law requires people who may sue the state ...

If you search this question on the answer, you’ll find a plethora of definitions. Though the official definition according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is that the Internet is an electronic ...

Words of the year do not have to be new coinages, but may be existing words that seem to have become particularly apposite or resonant.

In late August, a 5-year-old boy wandered out of a South Boise school and into its parking lot, where he was struck by a vehicle, according to a claim filed by the boy’s family. The Dec. 23 tort ...

First up is the holiday staple gingerbread. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, gingerbread gets its name from the medieval word for a ginger paste that was originally used for cooking ...

As 2024 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster has chosen polarization as the Word of the Year. A dictionary is not exactly a public truth teller, but their choice offers a commentary on this moment.

Musical types have used the word since the 50s, but it’s only now–2008–that the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary has decided to include it. There’s your assignment for the day: use the world ...

“Polarization,” from Merriam-Webster, means that we are tending toward the extremes rather than toward the center. “Brain rot” is Oxford English Dictionary’s 2024 word selectio ...