Quarantine is a word that has become all too familiar in recent years, but its origins are centuries old. Stemming from the ...

The language of Ovid and Virgil and Cicero deserves a fair obituary, and I see no one else offering themselves up for the ...

The latest starry revival of Samuel Beckett’s play is on Broadway, and one thing is certain: Whatever you call its elusive ...

'Brusque' describes a person’s manner of speaking or acting that is abrupt, blunt, or curt, sometimes to the point of seeming ...

A recent study from Unscramblerer.com found the most mispronounced words in the U.S. based on frequent internet searches for ...

Over 300,000 people searched for help pronouncing "gyro" alone, while that fancy meat and cheese board "charcuterie" ...

Addressing a largely progressive crowd at a rally for the likely next mayor of New York City, the centrist governor, Kathy ...

Origin and History The word peremptory originates from the Latin word ‘peremptorius’, meaning decisive or final. This comes ...

A Latin word for “cleverness” or “skillfulness,” facetiae came to be used to refer to a collection of witty sayings in 16th-century English. But things took a turn for the worse in Victorian slang, ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...