For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names due to capital letters being stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...

Merriam-Webster is more than a dictionary in the social media age ... the election and more recently the inauguration and the first few days of the Trump presidency. It's a study in how to ...

Social media users claimed that the word "freelance" comes from a term for a mercenary warrior. "A literal free lance," one X user mused.

Several three-syllable English words, like "caramel," "jewelry" and "Realtor," are pronounced as having just two syllables, ...

A Married At First Sight wife worries she’s “too ugly to r**t” and confronts her husband about his low sex drive on Tuesday night – a humiliating move that leads to a surprising climax … just not the ...

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Wardle released Wordle to the general public in October 2021. Since then, it has amassed a loyal following across the English-speaking world. In January 2022, Wardle sold Wordle to The New York Times ...

In  the first Congress address of his second term, Trump condemned 'wokeism', advocating for hiring based on competence ...

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This claim is indeed true. As discussed in a blog post by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, "when [the word] freelance first came into English in the early 1800s, it was used to refer to a ...

They burst into laughter. “You, Mom? You’re not sophisticated!” As you might guess, this irked me, to the point I’m still ...

“Aura farming” means “doing random acts for the sake of gaining aura,” according to according to Urban Dictionary. It's often ...