If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

Many words and phrases are known to have different meanings in other languages, and much of the English vocabulary is derived from Latin roots. Some social media users are claiming that the word ...

COVID-19 was chosen as the name for the disease because it describes the type of virus that causes it and the year cases were first reported. "Divoc" is not a Hebrew word, according to an expert. The ...

Scrolling through social media recently, you may have come across the viral claim that the word “homework” spelled backward translates to “child abuse” in Latin. This claim has been everywhere lately, ...

COLUMBUS (AP) – Newt Thomas was about 12 when he discovered that he possesses a special skill. His ability didn’t propel him to fame or great fortune, but it did make him a popular customer at Plank’s ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. We all know examples of palindromes: taco cat, racecar, kayak, Hannah. A palindrome is a word that, when spelled backward, is the same word. Today, ...

Alyssa Kramer can say any word backward. Assyla Remark nac yas yna drow drawkcacb. The 14-year-old from Poteau, Okla., can flip words around and spit them back out almost instantly -- it took me, on ...

The problem with the word evil is that it scares us away before we can even stop to consider what we are saying. It is a word meant to distance us from it so that we don't have to consider it any ...