Improve your English pronunciation! Learn how to correctly say 'fifth,' 'sixth,' 'hotel,' and 'February' with common pronunciation mistakes. Trump wants to ‘end’ largest US infrastructure project, a ...

What makes some knowledge feel sacred, or even forbidden? If you’re wondering how some truths, ideas and symbols reserved for a select set of people get to that point — look no further than the word ...

A few years ago, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson pointed out that the best way to expose a German spy would be to ask them to say the word “squirrel,” because “no German, no matter how well they speak ...

Jason Momoa prepared for his role in “Chief of War” with a personal language coach who lived with him for nearly a year. The ...

The term autism first was used by psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908. He used it to describe a schizophrenic patient who had withdrawn into his own world. The Greek word ''autós'' meant self and the ...

The term diabetes is the shortened version of the full name diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus is derived from the Greek word diabetes meaning siphon - to pass through and the Latin word mellitus ...

Borrowed into English in the 1600s, a cacafuego or cacafugo is a blustering, swaggering boaster. It literally means “fire-pooper” in Spanish. Someone who thinks that they’re more beautiful than they ...

Pumpkins are the bookends of autumn. Headlines about the arrival of pumpkin spice lattes signal summer's end. And soon after the last bites of pumpkin pie at the Thanksgiving table, we turn to plans ...

The Cypriot dialect retains many features of Ancient Greek and is considered to be a dialect of Koine Greek. Credit: Oleg Kr/ CC BY NC ND 2.0 Greek and Greek Cypriot dialects are distinct varieties of ...

Olive oil has shaped ancient Greek mythology, history, and philosophy for more than 7,000 years, according to new research published in the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science. Lead ...

The term soliloquy comes from the Late Latin ‘sōliloquium’, a combination of ‘solus’ meaning alone and ‘loqui’, meaning to speak. Recorded in English in the late 16th century, the word literally means ...