Bulgarians know that "friendship is friendship, but cheese costs money."... READ ON
Correcting your friends' typos just got easier (and more obnoxious).... READ ON
By some accounts, the average person owns 19 pairs of shoes. But it’s not just our closets that are overflowing with sneakers, loafers, pumps, and wedges. It’s also our vocabulary.... READ ON
These common birds are masters of the four-letter word. ... READ ON
Concepts like "nose" and "tongue" share some of the same sounds no matter what language you're listening to. ... READ ON
Four hundred years ago, if you were a seafaring thief, the label that you received said a great deal—mainly about whoever it was doing the labeling.... READ ON
Some plurals work in unexpected ways.... READ ON
The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang pinpoints comedian Jimmy Durante as the first person to use this meaty metaphor.... READ ON
Like many things, it all goes back to Shakespeare. Maybe.... READ ON
All over the world, people use the terms England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom interchangeably, even though they all mean different things.... READ ON
The dictionary goes from aardvark to zozimus because "every dictionary has to start with aardvark; otherwise it would have to start with aback, which is just too boring." ... READ ON
Here are 20 American towns that have really cut the cord from the sources of their names.... READ ON
People create words all the time, but what makes the dictionary take notice? How does a word make the leap into the world of official recognition?... READ ON
Sometime around the 7th century, a grammarian got fed up and started collecting all the annoying mistakes that people kept making in Latin. He wrote them up in the 'Appendix Probi,' a straightforward list of the “say this, not that” variety.... READ ON
You keep using that word…... READ ON
There are so many to look out for!... READ ON
Presidential retreat Camp David is named after Dwight Eisenhower’s grandson.
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