What do Bigfoot, alien abductions and faked moon landings have in common with popular theories about word origins? More than you might think.

If you want to go out and say you hate Jews, nothing’s stopping you,” a city commissioner stated. “You want to assault someone while screaming ‘death to Jews,’ it's a ...

Stacker has rounded up 26 old-timey sayings from the 1950s through the 1990s to explore their beginnings and their original ...

A language once carried only through conversation is now being preserved for future generations in a second edition ...

If you've read the news recently, chances are you have seen the headlines about the mass shooting at Brown University that killed two of my fellow Brown students and injured nine others. You might ...

Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he developed the "Avatar" aliens' language. "It's been quite a remarkable event in ...

Louise Brealey reflects on the challenges of narrating emotional books – and explains why she spent the entire fee for one audiobook on accent lessons. With an impressive four nominations across the ...

Florida is already pretty culturally distinct, but thanks to a hodgepodge of influences, Miami somehow manages to take things even further. From its Indigenous peoples to the early settlers and ...

Cambridge Dictionary’s screen time is skyrocketing. This week, the world’s largest online dictionary is expanding its lexicon with 6,000 new additions including the extremely online picks “Skibidi,” ...

There’s nothing more embarrassing than being in a new place, or out at a work happy hour with your younger coworkers, when someone suddenly uses a word you’ve never heard before but that everyone else ...

Sunday, March 2, is the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Sirach 27:4-7; Psalm 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16; 1 Corinthians 15:54-58; Luke 6:39-45. The first reading today says: “When a sieve is ...