According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, "e.g." is taken from the Latin phrase exempli gratia, which translates to ...

Like any self-respecting four-letter word, "nice" has many connotations. Centuries ago, "nice" meant someone was ignorant; ...

One possible explanation comes with the slang term for food. Spud was used to describe a potato as far back as the 1800s. The ...

Krrisha Agrawal, a fifth grader from Woodland Hill Montessori School in North Greenbush, will compete in next week's Scripps ...

"It's from the Latin nescius, meaning ignorant or unaware, essentially," says Jess Zafarris, an author of etymology books ... according to the Oxford English Dictionary. For much of that early ...

I f you’ve ever said something like “I haven’t gotten a parking ticket in years” and then immediately followed it by saying ...

“Alamak” and “nasi lemak” have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for the first time. According to the dictionary, they are among a number of “untranslatable words” from ...

Faizan Zaki (speller no. 207) won the 97th Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling “éclaircissement.” The 13-year-old, who hails from Allen, Texas, readily spelled the word to become the champion in ...

Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by literary historians for his famous Dictionary. This dictionary, formally ...

“The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology” defines intuition as the action of looking upon or into; contemplation; inspection (intuitus) or the action of mentally looking at; contemplation, ...

There has been a record-breaking rise in antisemitic incidents in the UK since the attack by Hamas on October 7th 2023.