Although "dog" is ubiquitous today to describe man's best friend, it remains a mystery where the word originally came from.

The word "deadline" has been used a lot in reference to tariffs. It got us thinking: what is the origin of the word? NPR's ...

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Feedback from my A. Word. A. Day subscribers suggests that it may have evolved from "knurd," the word "drunk" spelled backward, but that explanation smacks of folk etymology.

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But man, what a name! "Schlep" is the only other (not totally obscure) word in the English language that ends in -lep, and even that wears its Yiddishness on its sleeve. So how did the julep trot ...