WORDS

From ink to calm, you might be surprised to learn how many words come back to scorching temperatures.

If you’ve spent time in New York City, or plan to, you might want to brush up on some of the most common slang terms you’ll find in the Big Apple.

Horses own the winner’s circle in English idioms. But where did these popular phrases originate?

People have been “dropping like flies”—often due to weather—since at least the mid-19th century.

In Alaska, "going outside" applies to journeys that go beyond than stepping through your front door.

This omnium-gatherum will turn even oliogoglots into omniloquent charmers.

Québec slang, as heard in Montréal and elsewhere, is a remarkable 'méli-mélo' (hodgepodge) of ancient French, more recent borrowings from Arabic- and Haitian Creole-speaking communities, and English loanwords.

Yes, they’re synonyms. But there’s a little more to the semantic story of ‘recur’ vs. ’reoccur’ than that.

Conspiracy theories are everywhere these days. Here are a few old words you can use to describe them while adjusting your tinfoil hat.

Virtually no one in the U.S. or UK had heard of the ghostly term 'poltergeist' before Catherine Crowe put pen to paper.

‘Chicken’ is such a common synonym for ‘coward’ that it probably doesn’t even seem weird. But it is.

File these away in your noggin.