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

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

Between endless doomscrolling and nonstop negative headlines, a New Mexico political science professor said it's no surprise ...

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 ...

LAST week in this column, the phrase "greener pastures" – an idiom that means a better or more promising situation ...

“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 ...