Any time you’re at a ballfield or watching a game on TV, you’ll hear the language of baseball and softball. The sibling sports overlap in their vocabulary with terms like “southpaw,” “payoff pitch,” ...

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There came a point when “degenerate” joined “inveterate” as a dear friend of the word “gambler,” in about the same way ...

Good builds on and echoes all we have learned and experienced in life to guide our thoughts and actions according to inherent ...

A cherished Canadian rallying cry is now in the official lexicon: Oxford University Press on Tuesday added “elbows up” to the Oxford English Dictionary. The hockey term, popularized by Gordie Howe, ...

If you're sitting kitty-corner to some hoser at a cashspiel while eating your kokum's world-famous blueberry grunt — it’s probably going to turn into an elbows-up affair. And if you need some help ...

The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have added 314 new words and phrases to the world-renowned reference book. Among the new terms added to the 142-year-old dictionary are life hack, ...

In this installment of NPR's Word of the Week, we go to camp: from 16th-century military lodgings to the wilderness ...

Ambrose Bierce’s collection of satirical definitions, The Devil’s Dictionary , has had many modern imitators, of which ...

I read JD Vance’s Communion two days after returning from a week-long workshop—”Writing in an Age of Anxiety”—which immersed ...

According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go ...