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Fact Check: Armchair Linguists Claim 'Nickelodeon' Means 'I Don't Care About God.' Here's What We...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTikTok user @AnimeBibleVerse, X user @AnimeBibleVerse, Google Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia...
Kellogg is giving its Pringles and Cheez-It business a new name with classical Latin twist. It's the...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPringles chips are among the snacks that will be managed by Kellanova, one of the companies being...
Is a preposition something you can end a sentence with?
Scripps News via AOL· 4 months agoMerriam-Webster's website is shown. There were a few things drilled into our heads back in English...
11 Language Books That Won’t Bore You
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBuzzFeed News The BuzzFeed copy desk is obviously obsessed with all things grammar, style, and editing. Here are some of our favorite books on language....
14 Internet-Adjacent Slang Words Newly Added to Dictionary.com
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEvery so often, dictionaries spruce up their database of lexicography in order to get with the...
The most influential 'nepo babies' throughout history, from the Borgias to the the British prime...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDictionary definition of nepotism.iStock / Getty Images Nepotism sparked a debate after Vulture...
The Things We Can't Say
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Yuliaglam An obscure webpage that Stanford University had quietly published seven months earlier made a huge splash in late...
David Murdock Column: On turning off the electronic world for a while
The Gadsden Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSo, on a whim last weekend, I turned off most of my electronic devices for 24 hours. I left the...
Musing on the virtue and value of humility
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLook up “humility” and the online dictionary says “The state or character of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a low estimate of one's self; self-abasement.” ...
Frank Alfred Odysseus: The meaning behind the name of Carrie and Boris Johnson’s third child
The Independent via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOn Tuesday 11 July, Carrie Johnson announced that she and former prime minister Boris Johnson have...
