Word of the day: Nonchalant

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AOL

45 Fun Word Origins You Might Want To Drop Into Every Conversation

We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the words we toss around every single day without a second thought, it’s wild ...

Word of the day: Aura

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Psychology Today

The Origins of Language

For more than 150 years ago, the assumption that language is a singular event has hampered progress in explaining its evolution. Another obstacle was the failure to recognize that certain social ...
Reporter-Herald

Language origin may bow-wow, pooh-pooh or sing song

On his morning constitutional today the Vice President of Research and I encountered a longtime FOT (Friend of Twoey’s). This guy owns a pair of Pekinese so speaks a bit of dog language. Twoey begins ...
The New York Times

The Harvard-Educated Linguist Breaking Down ‘Skibidi’ and ‘Rizz’

Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language. Credit...Peter Garritano for The New York Times Supported by By ...
The Manila Times on MSNOpinion

New words of Japanese origin in the Oxford English Dictionary

THERE has been a remarkable surge of global interest in Japan recently, a trend most visibly evidenced by the dramatic influx ...
Los Angeles Times

Column: A Word, Please: A food word’s background can be delicious

I’m not an etymology buff. Though I love many aspects of language, word histories don’t interest me much. The plots are too formulaic: Scrappy young word starts out on a trek that winds through ...