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Beyoncé's name to be added to French encyclopedic dictionary
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThus, Beyoncé's name has a French origin. In 2004, the term "bootylicious" was added to the Oxford ...
Opinion | How Singapore and Malaysia’s coffee names embrace multiculturalism
South China Morning Post· 3 days agoThe word kopitiam itself – included in the Oxford English Dictionary – comes from the Malay kopi...
American white pelicans nesting on Utah island for first time in 80 years
KTVX via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAmerican white pelicans have once again returned to a local nesting colony they abandoned last year,...
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2024 | naked capitalism
Naked Capitalism· 2 days ago~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics: (1) New swing state polling, Hillary Clinton on the ignorance of youth, Trump will love jail, potential nasal spray, and you'll never guess from whom. ~
Why do we say ‘green thumb,’ ‘out of the blue’ and more color idioms?
NY Post via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Oxford English Dictionary cited “[the] use of ‘green fingers’ as early as 1906 in the novel ‘The...
Why it matters that Biden says antisemitism has become 'ferocious'
The Forward· 4 days agoSpeaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance, President Biden described the...
10 surprising facts about The Simpsons you didn’t know
Digital Trends via Yahoo News· 3 days agowas not recognized as an actual word, although it does predate the show by several decades. Dan...
Review: Nashville Repertory Theatre's POTUS...
Broadway World· 9 hours agoNashville Repertory Theatre closes out its 39th season with one of the best laugh-out-loud comedies we’ve ever seen on a Tennessee Performing Arts Center...
Mother Wit on Mother’s Day | New Orleans' Multicultural News Source | The Louisiana Weekly
Louisiana Weekly· 7 days agoWhat are you planning for Mother’s Day? Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate and honor the diverse array of women who become birth mothers, adoptive mothers, grandmothers taking on the role of ...
Are These Foods Actually from Where Their Name Says?
MediaFeed via AOL· 2 days agoIn Germany, they are referred to as “weinerwurst” or “wieners,” the term for residents of Vienna. The first entry in the Oxford English Dictionary ...