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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· 1 month agoTikTok user @AnimeBibleVerse, X user @AnimeBibleVerse, Google Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia...
Merriam-Webster's word of the year – authentic – reflects growing concerns over AI's ability to...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAccording to the publisher’s editor-at-large, 2023 represented 'a kind of crisis of authenticity.'...
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...
Fact Check: Rumors Claim 'Alcohol' Originates from an Arabic Word for 'Body-Eating Spirit.' Here Are...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMx. Granger/Wikimedia Commons Claim: The origins of the word "alcohol" come from the Arabic term...
11 Language Books That Won’t Bore You
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 1 year 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....
Voices: The Top 10 Top 10s of all time
The Independent via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe Top 10s started in The Independent on Sunday magazine, the New Review, 10 years ago on 2 May 2013, with the Top 10 Worst Beatles Songs. I had...
David Murdock Column: On turning off the electronic world for a while
The Gadsden Times via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoSo, on a whim last weekend, I turned off most of my electronic devices for 24 hours. I left the...
Mystery solved: How to pronounce 'Qatar,' the World Cup host whose name everybody says wrong
Yahoo Sports via AOL· 1 year ago(Graphic by Michael Wagstaffe) [World Cup: Viewer's guide | Group previews | Top 30 players | Power...
Musing on the virtue and value of humility
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 10 months 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.” ...
The Things We Can't Say
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Yuliaglam An obscure webpage that Stanford University had quietly published seven months earlier made a huge splash in late...
