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Double dog dares were around long before Flick resisted one in ‘A Christmas Story.’ But where did dogs come in?

The singular form of 'they' has been endorsed by writers like Jane Austen and William Shakespeare.

Punctuation can be a headache, even when it's just inside a name. Here are eight brand names with problems caused by those important little marks.

If we listen across the globe, we’ll hear all sorts of gasping H's and gulping K's, so much so that it almost seems like there’s a universal word for hiccup. Except there are some surprising, er, hiccups along the way.

Many euphemisms exist for a state or federal prison stay—and once inside, inmates have to adopt a whole new jargon to navigate incarcerated life.

J remains a fairly rare letter in English—you can expect to find it in just 0.16 percent of the words in a dictionary

The English meaning of ‘Mea culpa!’ is basically “My bad!” In Latin, but it’s slightly more nuanced.

Though he wasn’t fond of swearing, Theodore Roosevelt didn't always speak softly—he was capable of delivering a brutal insult when he felt it was appropriate.

You might be spitting chiclets if you do too much chirping. That sentence will make a whole lot more sense after you learn about hockey slang.

From ‘titty’ to ‘boner,’ these rude words aren’t actually always rude.

Are you an "adjective-jerker," a "learning-shover," a "sublime rascal," or perhaps a "castor-oil artist"?

Antidisestablishmentarianism is regarded as the longest non-medical, non-coined, nontechnical word in the English language—and it keeps some robust company.