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There are a number of words in English that seem to be formed from two parts, but one of the parts is obscure. Wonder no more at where these parts come from. Produced for Mental Floss
Why say a whole sentence when just a word will do? You might never have noticed that these English words contain whole phrases within them. Produced for Mental Floss
In the mid-20th century, an eccentric English writer came up with a plan to boil English down to 850 words. Here's how that worked. Produced for Mental Floss.
Do you ever go on such an epic rant you just feel you’ve run out of words with which to hammer your enemies?Next time pull out these fancy insults and really class up the joint while you twist the ...
Every generation likes to think it invented slang anew, but often the latest words are actually very old. Here are some words that are much older than they seem. Produced for Mental Floss
These days, when we want to know how to spell a word, we have an accepted authority to look to: the dictionary. But that wasn’t always the case. Here's how Brits and Americans came to look to two d...
Sometimes words we might not expect to have anything in common historically, even though they sound kind of alike, do in fact go back to the exact same source. Produced for Mental Floss.
Octopus, platypus, walrus…there’s something about that –us ending that makes us hesitate when we want to make a plural. Here's what you need to know before you pluralize. Produced for Mental Floss.
How come some words only have a grumpy, negative version? Here are a few that used to have happier counterparts, but we stopped using them. Produced for Mental Floss
It varies from town to town, or even within families. Part of the problem with the word pecan has to do with the way it came into the English language. Produced for Mental Floss,
Everybody hates management-speak and corporate jargon, but here are some terms that people used to think of as horrible jargon that we all got used to. Maybe one day we'll all be leveraging deliver...
Why does English have so many words that have twins? Here's how we got to have two vocabularies, one based in Germanic roots, and one based in Latin. Produced for Mental Floss.
English has borrowed a lot of words from French, but some words come from whole French phrases. Even if you speak French, you may have never noticed the connection.
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