Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

A conversation about salty language and peppering questions with examples and explanations in informal contexts.

The root words of snake and serpent mean 'a creeping thing'. Most snake sayings are negative, including a Singlish loan ...

We’ve compiled a list of cheeky English words, some of which are so old that they don’t even show up in the Merriam-Webster or Oxford dictionaries any more. That makes them perfect for making ...

Institutions associated with publishing have announced lists of words that stand out from the previous year for one reason or ...

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Before that, it was an Old English word spelled 'fefer', which came from the Old French word 'fievre' and the Latin word 'febris', all meaning the same thing. And now for our 'Previously on Wordle ...

Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English ... of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the Church. Each element in the carol has a code word ...

In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th ...

Contest dates: Jan. 15-Feb. 12, 2025. By The Learning Network A 14-year-old started a donation drive to help teen girls whose homes have burned in the Southern California wildfires. What can we ...