FOR nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to ...
Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all ...
By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...
Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School more than a century ago. The struggle for ...
Manifesting freedom from brain rot’ and other attempts to encase our aspirations in words” FOR several years now, at yearend, ...
Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...
The popularity of Wordle has also inspired spin-offs and clones. Variants like Quordle (four puzzles at once), Heardle (a ...
LAST week in this column, the phrase "greener pastures" – an idiom that means a better or more promising situation ...
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Cap/No cap: To "cap" means to "lie, to boast, or to front," according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (although ... The origin comes from online comedy creator Fanum, who is a part of streamer ...
“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers ... particularly online content, considered trivial or unchallenging.
Cy-Fair ISD board is considering a transgender policy that mirrors a Katy ISD policy that is the subject of a federal civil ...