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Shampoo to Candy: 10 words you didn't know were of Indian-origin
Shampoo to Candy: 10 words you didn't know were of Indian-origin
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11 racist and offensive phrases that people still use all the time
Many common terms and phrases are actually rooted in racist, sexist, or generally distasteful langu…
Christina Sterbenz,Dominic-Ma…
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Why Americans throw 'like' in the middle of sentences
The word "like" became one of the most widely abused words in the English language after one song s…
Gina Echevarria,Nathaniel Lee
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The Historical Origins Of 6 Swear Words
Unfortunately, we don't have much evidence of use in English, partly because the original Oxford En…
Christina Sterbenz
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Here's How 15 Famous Companies Got Their Quirky Names
It's not something we think about often, but the names of many major companies that now seem famili…
Alison Griswold
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11 Racist And Offensive Phrases That People Still Use All The Time
"Gyp" or "gip" most likely evolved as a shortened version of "gypsy" - more correctly known as the …
Christina Sterbenz
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9 Words With Totally Unexpected Origins
In 1880, P.T. Barnum bought an elephant, named "Jumbo," from the Royal Zoological Society in London…
Christina Sterbenz
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9 Words With Totally Unexpected Origins
In 1880, P.T. Barnum bought an elephant, named "Jumbo," from the Royal Zoological Society in London…
Christina Sterbenz
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Gaslit, gaslighted... gaslated? The word has flummoxed the internet for years. It turns out the answer is complicated.
Is the past tense of "gaslight" gaslighted or gaslit? After a third option went viral, we asked lin…
Andrew Lloyd
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Elon Musk is getting ready to launch his first AI model to premium X users. 'Grok' will be 'based' and 'loves sarcasm,' Musk said.
Elon Musk announced on Friday that Grok, a new conversational chatbot from his AI company xAI, woul…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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I'm a trans woman in an all-male Georgia prison. Here's what a day in my life is like, from working as a law clerk to cooking with friends.
Christina Lynch is a law clerk in the prison's law library, so she works all morning. At night, she…
Christina Lynch
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Oxford Dictionary marks the entry of 650 new words including an Indian word for underpants
The Indian English word for underpants, Chuddies, is among the 650 new words recently added to the …
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Premier League broadcaster Sky Sports wants to ban announcers from using certain words after a study showed racial bias in football commentary
One of the phrases on Sky's banned list is reportedly "nitty gritty," which is thought to have root…
Barnaby Lane
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A comprehensive list of Siri voice commands you can use on an iPhone
You can use Siri voice commands to control certain features of your iPhone through the virtual assi…
Melanie Weir
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How 17 famous companies got their quirky names
Because of their success, these company names are very familiar to us, but most of them have hidden…
Skye Gould
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These are the winning words from every National Spelling Bee since 1925
Scripps's list of "winning words" from previous competitions gives a glimpse at this evolution. Rel…
Mark Abadi
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A complete timeline of Shakira and Gerard Piqué's relationship and split
Shakira and Piqué announced their breakup in June 2022 after 11 years together. Shakira has since b…
Eve Crosbie
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How 17 famous companies got their quirky names
Because of their success, these company names are very familiar to us, but most of them have hidden…
Steven Benna,Skye Gould
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Kit Harington's ancestor invented the flushing toilet and is the reason it's called 'The John'
Kit Harington's brooding role of Jon Snow on "Game of Thrones" is way more interesting (and pun f…
Kim Renfro
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Map Shows Which Countries Call It 'Football' And Which Call It 'Soccer'
"It's an abbreviation of association football. Both soccer and American football come from the same…