New year, new list of obnoxious slang terms proliferating society — from mind-numbing rap song catch phrases to good words ...
Redact” once meant to edit. But around the middle of the 20th century, it began to refer to one particular kind of editing.
The Emerald Isle’s culinary offerings are better than ever—and T&C crossed the country to try them.
Language often gives us words that quietly describe the fabric of everyday life, and quotidian is one such word. Though it ...
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Then and now, money talks

Some words are on the money. When the word "farm" entered English during the 1200s, for instance, it had more to do with ...
Even half of domestic Australian university students surveyed thought red and yellow flags marked a safe area, so surfers ...
Chances are you’ve heard some of these terms over the past year—whether you understood what they meant or not.
Some people think the flags denote a risky area – others that only good swimmers should venture between them ...
The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...