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Apple AirTags will help you keep track of your stuff, but they won’t help you convey how funny you find the word ‘boob.’

Southpaws are most often talked about in baseball and boxing. But which sport (if either) coined the term?

The origins of phrases aren’t always very clear, but this one is—and it all started with carnival barkers.

Step into a Target or Walgreens and you might be labeled a 'guest.' The practice probably started for a very Goofy reason.

The '90s were da bomb—a decade of great music, spectacular TV, and artful language use. Just look at the following 25 bits of slang popular in the '90s that were all that (and a bag of chips).

“Cut to the chase” is a slightly friendlier way of telling someone to get to the point, but old Hollywood filmmakers meant it literally.

Empathy’s definition originally described the relationship between humans and objects. Now, it’s much less straightforward.

Sometimes the dreadful things we must suffer can seem a little less grim when they have the sweet ring, nay—the dulcet tones of euphonious polysyllabic Latin appellations.

Sure, you might know a few palindrome words on your own. But what about palindromic Petrarchan sonnets or recipes for ragù?

If we’re being pedantic here (and we are), ‘vaccination’ and ‘immunization’ shouldn't be used interchangeably.

American football is home to a lot of nonsensical terminology, but 'hut' has a fairly clear origin.

'Fall off the wagon,' which is typically used to describe someone who has begun drinking alcohol after a period of abstinence, does not actually involve anyone tumbling off a horse-drawn carriage.