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See if you can determine when these words first appeared in print, per the Oxford English Dictionary, in the quiz below. If dating words seems like a daunting task, it was.
I was grateful to John Lane, of East Falmouth, for coining tele-font-ics and, in particular, for explaining what led him to ...
The Oxford English Dictionary has included the word "lah into its lexicon, a significant nod to the uniqueness of Malaysian English. According to the OED, this colloquial particle is used as an ...
Researchers from tracking nearly 500 U.K. adults found that low-quality friendships predicted higher risks of heart attack and premature death over eight years. Prolonged exposure to negative social ...
BALTIMORE ( WJZ) -- A group of engineering students at Johns Hopkins University put their invention skills to work and ...
A word processor is a device or software program capable of creating, storing, and printing text documents. It allows users to write and modify text, display it on a screen, save it electronically, ...
After TV news channels earned India infamy with their Operation Sindoor spectacle, there’s now a sequel playing out with Sonam Raghuvanshi case. It’s become an unfortunate template. Criminal ...
Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...
Freedom to Worship Pentecostal Church, 2013 Old Knoxville Pike, Maryville: Services on Sunday include Bible Study at 9:45 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday service starts ...