There are so many different ways to think of a baby name for your soon-to-be child. Most parents will either type “unique baby names” into Google, browse through a baby name book they found at their ...

Language is a living, breathing entity, constantly evolving as words and phrases are adopted, adapted, and sometimes stripped of their original context. Many expressions we use daily have fascinating ...

The great English etymologist Owen Barfield once wrote, “Words may be made to disgorge the past that is bottled up inside of them, as coal and wine, when we kindle or drink them, yield up their ...

It can compliment, or dismiss. It sometimes conveys strong emotions, or no emotion at all. And that's "nice" -- a tidy, sturdy word that's remarkably adaptable. Hundreds of years ago, it meant someone ...

Today Americans often use the words liberty and freedom interchangeably. But historian David Hackett Fischer, in his work “Liberty and Freedom,” draws a crucial distinction. The word liberty, rooted ...

Popular internet slang terms like "skibidi," "delulu" and "tradwife" are now recognized as words in the Cambridge Dictionary. The dictionary, which is published by Cambridge University Press and ...