It’s time for another quarterly update to the OED, and we have more than 1,000 revised and updated entries including 1,200…
Have you ever wondered whether a penguin is a bird, or whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable? Here you'll find a collection of answers to peculiar questions.
Learn new and unfamiliar words which you probably won’t need in everyday conversation or writing, but which are fun, interesting, and unusual.
Find out how 'bug' came to mean 'an error in a computer program or system' and whether or not a real insect contributed to the origin of the term.
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Jane Austen achieved some success as an author during her own lifetime. Her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility…
“There are three words in the English language, and three words only, that begin with the letters ‘dw’,” claims President…
