Etymonline

And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself, ["Leaves of Grass," 1855] Joseph Alfred Scoville (rhymes with shovel)[1], born in 1815, was one of the poor boys of Connecticut who came to New…

In personal curiosity I was looking at a webpage about the history of H.P.

One of etymonline s favorite correspondents asks, "are there data on when the word [soccer] became standard in the U.S., diverging from UK usage?"

Certain foods are synonymous with the summertime.

The orthographic mass-scrum known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee gets under way soon.

Modern English is a listy language.

Good weather infects people with a strange desire to eat outdoors, so that all the cute little bugs can share in your food while you're busy getting a sunburn.

Recently I stumbled across an earlier date than what we d had on the term rock and roll.

On the one hand, I incline to worry that by telling people how to do this, I might teach scammers how to do it; but on the other, I m sure that just as many or more people will benefit from the knowledge of how this is done, using it to spot the first gro…

To handle it with kid gloves is to treat the subject delicately.