List of All Articles with Tag 'words'

You’ll be chuffed after you read this peng British slang list, with bare terms that will keep you from looking like a pillock.

Non-Philadelphians can finally look up the meaning of ‘jawn’ in the dictionary.

Stick these terms in your cauldron and pass them around your coven.

History is filled with figures who were single-handedly—yet often undeservedly—held responsible for epic societal failures. But what do goats have to do with it?

We don’t know how these Victorian slang terms ever fell out of fashion, but we propose bringing them back, as soon as possible.

Many bad words come and go, but these six have withstood the tests of time. Here’s how they came to be.

Tennis’s U.S. Open has only been an “open” since 1968. Here’s why.

Don’t get embarrassed if you can’t spell ‘embarrass.’ It’s apparently—not ‘apparantly’—a pretty common error.

Ever wonder why there’s a ‘k’ in ‘knead,’ or a ‘d’ in ‘Wednesday’? While there isn’t always a good reason for why some English words are spelled the way they are, there are reasons.

If you've ever felt that English could use a couple more tenses to truly capture the nuances of the past, present, and future, this exploration of languages that have taken verb tenses to fascinating new heights is for you.

No, we’re not f***ing lying.

The idiom goes back centuries. And no, it's not 'nipping it in the butt.'