The average person’s vocabulary leaves a lot to be desired. Because of this, more people are using word unscrambling tools than ever before. These tools are designed to help people whose vocabularies ...

The date is the anniversary of the most famous disaster at sea, the death of one president and the funeral of another.

The origin of what is currently known as ADHD has been moved back to 1753. This early text on attention deficit influenced later physicians who had been credited with discovering ADHD. The interest in ...

Find out about the worst college mascots across the United States, from pachyderms to those whose heads are just too big.

Since the book came out last fall, Zafarris says, she’s heard from readers about words she included or left out. The book’s sections include words about sex, war, monsters, and all manner of violence.

ChelseaLook up "humiliation" up in the dictionary and you'll read about Arsenal fans shouting 'ole' as they sarcastically cheer an utterly inept Chelsea side managing to string 10 passes together when ...

The Chelsea "project" is a mess.The Boehly-Clearlake era began with a wild, overexcited zeal but that has given way to confusion and a sense of drift.This is not how to build a club.

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What I’m sharing today are words that still can be found in dictionaries, the Bible, older words of fiction and poems from famous people who we can still read and ...

No one knows how human language began, although there are many theories. However, we do know something about the linguistic roots of languages. English, for example, is one of a group of languages in ...

“All my life I’ve pronounced it ‘haitch’, dimly aware that I was getting it ‘wrong’,” he wrote in a blog post for the BBC about ... he would begin using “aitch” despite the Oxford ­English ...

I watched the action unfurl, my heart in my mouth. Spooked by an ugly noise, the beast seemed out of control. Would he be caught and calmed and order restored?