The 2026 Central Section Division III boys basketball championship game will feature an all-Tulare County final.

"Peace" has been chosen as the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2025, according to research carried out by Oxford University Press (OUP). More than a third (35%) of children chose the word, which ...

For some dogs, picking up the names of new toys is as easy as listening in on human conversation 1. Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects.

Monique Todorovski, a clinical administrator, shares her experience of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia Read more in the way I feel series When I met my husband and found out his name was Philip, I felt ...

AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list “Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial ...

To yaffle is to eat or drink messily, or to talk incoherently. It’s also another name for the green woodpecker, which supposedly makes a “yaffling” call. In Victorian England, some book publishers ...

The Dems have a novel strategy as they look towards 2028: sound normal. This comes from a new policy memo, published online by left-leaning think tank Third Way, that suggested politicians scrap 44 ...

This is a humor column ....unless you don’t laugh. Then it’s just a column. I’ve written many columns about the word “y’all” and its origins. As a y’all-aholic, I say and write it frequently, even ...

Did you know the English language is filled with fun chocolate and sweet-themed expressions? From calling your friend a “chocoholic” to describing something super easy as “like taking candy from a ...

Country singer Luke Bryan temporarily stopped his performance during a recent concert after forgetting the lyrics to one of his songs—again. While seated at the piano playing his 2015 hit Strip It ...

Veteran campaign strategist James Carville warned Democrats Tuesday that using far-left political jargon is alienating persuadable voters. Since before the election, Carville has struggled to wrench ...

The last time I heard a woman yelled at in the street, the tirade ended in the time-honoured tradition of an angry bloke calling her a "stupid See-You-Next-Tuesday". It's an international term we all ...