Stacker culled through news and entertainment resources to come up with a list of 20 slang words that originated from or were ...

He’d hoped to chronicle the company’s long-awaited overhaul of its online unabridged dictionary, the first major undertaking ...

According to NPR, spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or specter. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. From there, the word lived a harmless life, ...

“Lit” dates back to the early 1900s, when it meant being drunk. These days, it’s used by rappers to describe something exciting. Rapper Nas used the term in his 1996 song “The Message,” in which he ...

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It is with profound humility and heartfelt gratitude that I stand before you this evening to celebrate an extraordinary ...

Iowa's manufacturing, closely connected to agriculture, is suffering employment losses, but finding enough labor remains the ...

In September, 1943, a thirteen-year-old German boy named Christoph von Dohnányi wrote an innocuous-seeming letter to his ...

The White House pressed Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during a recent military ...

Even after the colonisers left, their language remained enthroned, shaping how Ghanaians prayed, learned, and even understood themselves. Political freedom may have set our bodies free, but linguistic ...