Wordle is a browser game, but for a lot of people hearing about the viral game, their first port of call was the Apple App ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great “contribution” to science: the killing of Archimedes. Today the U.S. risks suffering ...

How did a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawn so many names and variations? An expert in American dialects explains.

Take the word “take,” for example ... If your nerves are on edge, you can “take a chill pill” to calm down and take it easy.

The word itself predates Christianity, but the conclave with its secretive deliberations and ancient trappings still captures the public's curiosity.

The Controversial History of the Word ‘Hillbilly,’ Which Was First Defined in Print 125 Years Ago In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he ...

President Trump has repeatedly called tariffs "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." NPR's Word of the Week explores how they got their name.

For all the freewheeling mercantile exchange behind this lexical evolution, the history of the word “tariff” can also be made to tell a story of economic power — who imposes what on whom.

STATEWIDE–Hoosiers struggle to spell the word “awesome” more than any other word, according to a new study by the essay writing service EssayHub. EssayHub used Google Trends data and ranked the top ...