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I sometimes think the French should just throw in the towel and speak English instead
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoI have just spent some weeks in France, and have encountered a recurrent problem: how does one cope...
Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAntiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images...
Olympic hero Jim Thorpe's barnstorming life included one happy year playing baseball in Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhile Olympic gold medalist and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Thorpe may have been the world's greatest...
New dictionary will showcase the beauty and creativity of Black American English
theGrio via AOL· 12 months agoOPINION: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, which will be edited by noted historian...
Finding the humor in 'Pride & Prejudice'
The Gaston Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI’m a little surprised that I read “Pride & Prejudice” over the last few weeks. It’s not normally the kind of book I would read but I did really enjoy...
Spare us, Prince Harry. His truth overload could cause irreparable harm. | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs details of Prince Harry’s much anticipated memoir, “Spare,” have leaked to the Spanish media and...
Inside the 12 Greatest Unsolved Disappearances of All Time
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe 12 Greatest Unsolved DisappearancesPhoto illustration by Tom Messina using Getty Images This...
David McCullough Dies: Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Was 89
Deadline via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDavid McCullough, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose biographies gave character and...
17 Books to Read to Prepare for King Charles's Coronation
Biography via Yahoo News· 1 year ago17 Books to Read for CoronationHearst Owned As we gear up for the coronation of King Charles,...
‘Bone biographies’ reveal what life was like for Black Death survivors in medieval England
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoResearchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was...