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It's not as world-famous as ramen or sushi. But the humble onigiri is soul food in Japan
San Francisco Chronicle· 22 hours agoThe word “onigiri” became part of the Oxford English Dictionary this year, proof that the humble...
20 Longest Words in English and Their Meanings (Plus, How To Pronounce Them!)
Parade via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDrum roll, please! Any guesses? The longest word in English is...
‘Fax, No Printer’ May Be Teen Slang Today, But Its Story Dates Back To The 19th Century
Blavity via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoThe play-on-word was already in use in the 19th century. “The use of ‘fax’ as a fun phonetic play on...
The German who taught England to love itself
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoLike a greedy boy at prep school receiving a cake through the post, my eyes widened whenever I got hold of a new county volume to devour in the Buildings...
Elden Ring scholar makes a dictionary for every name in the RPG, somehow already including Shadow of...
Games Radar· 4 days agoAn Elden Ring veteran has constructed an ‘Etymology Dictionary’ featuring every name in...
IMF boss: ‘I had to buy a new house for all my jackets’
Daily Telegraph· 4 days agoShortages were commonplace, and Georgieva recalls a time when she visited a store where only bottles...
What lends legitimacy to the LGBTQ community -- our flag, our history, or the scars we bear? Leslie...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer· 16 hours agoMerrium Webster, my favorite, gave five definitions because the word applies to so many different...
Fact Check: It's Commonly Believed the Color Red Triggers Bulls to Attack. Here's What We Know
Snopes via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSources: Be like a Red Rag to a Bull. 12 June 2024, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/...
What’s up with the word up? - The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald
Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald· 5 days agoWhat two letter word in the English language has more definitions that up? In the bottom left-hand column of page 1,327 in my American Heritage Dictionary
Why are teens saying ‘low-key’ and what does it mean?
The Today Show via AOL· 6 days agoAccording to Dictionary.com, low-key “can variously mean ‘quiet,’ ‘restrained,’ ‘moderate,’ or...