Outgoing US President Joe Biden, in his farewell speech, while bidding his decades-long career in politics to an end, warned ...

In 2018 a study showed that Winston-Salem was in need of about 16,000 new affordable housing units. And according to the N.C.

The Washington Commanders switched to their current identity only recently, having had three other names prior to that.

The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this ...

LAST week in this column, the phrase 'greener pastures' – an idiom that means a better or more promising situation ...

Webster dictionary, while a 2023 Pew Research Center poll finds ‘divisive’ most commonly describes US politics ...

We bring you special rebroadcasts on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 1/3/25. First, new words added to the dictionary in 2024. In hour two, critics' reviews and whose reviews are worth hearing.

Here we are at the end of the holiday season, a time of “glad tidings, peace, and good will toward all.” How ironic it is that Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, recently released “polarization” ...

“Brain rot” – WOTY at Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary – refers to the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially ...

THE Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “FATHER TIME” as: “Time personified, especially as a bearded old man holding a scythe and an hourglass.” But what about a 40-year-old bearded old man who holds a ...

Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all ...

“The basic job of the dictionary is to tell the truth about words,” the Merriam-Webster editor continued. “We’ve had dictionaries of English for 420 years and it’s only been in the last ...