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The Astonishing Origins of 6 Common Compound Words

Some of the Most Fun Cryptic Clues Ever Written

In Search of the Perfect Garden Path Sentence

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The Nicest Possible Words With Three Consecutive Double Letters

9 Common Words That Are Actually People's Names

Preposterous Words for Perfectly Practical Things

The 5 Naughtiest Medieval Riddles, Ranked

These Words Have Absolutely Wild Superhero Origin Stories

7 Secret Portmanteaus That Have Been Hiding in Plain Sight

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FUBAR, SUSFU, and 17 Other Glorious “Military Screw-Up Acronyms”

5 Common Words With Literal Goblins Hiding Inside

The 12 Most Astonishingly Bad Puritan Names, Ranked

6 Great Typos of History

The Cat Who Helped to Write the Dictionary

9 Real Words That Those Cowards at Wordle Are Too Scared to Use

Ben Franklin’s 229 Words for Drunkenness

9 Words You Never Realized Were Onomatopoeic

Meet the Secret 27th Letter of the Alphabet

8 Lovely Swear Words and Insults We Should Never Have Stopped Using

The Most Spoken Word on the Planet Owes Its Origin to the “Anti-Bell-Ringing Society”

Can You Pronounce All These Words Correctly?

7 Words That, to Everyone’s Great Surprise, Have Opposites!

The Amazing True Story of the World's Funniest English Language Textbook

The Mysterious 'Ghost Words' That Sneak Into Dictionaries at Night

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The Weird Grammar Rule We All Obey Without Knowing It

7 Words With Genuinely Surprising Origins

Swearing: How it started. How it's going.