Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

The Church of England is increasingly dropping the word “church” in favour of “relevant and modern-sounding” descriptions ...

Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels "black" or "African-American".

But when it was coined it referred to awe as in terror, rather than the modern form, "amazement." Of course, given the frequency with which it turns up in modern conversation, maybe it's not quite ...