The Florida State vs. Clemson football game is quite a long way from the "Bowden Bowl." What once was annually one of the ACC's top matchups is in 2025 an ACC Network game between a .500 team and ...

Fun was first a verb meaning "to cheat or hoax." It came from fon, an old word for "fool." It still retains some of that sense in “make fun of,” but now also means "a merry good time." Fond also goes ...

I’ve read about how negative stereotypes affect Jewish women in particular, and thought: ”Hey, let’s look at Polish.” Our language is a window to our soul, after all. To how we think. When it comes to ...

What is a continuously variable transmission? Is it better to drive, more reliable, more efficient, or better than an automatic? The automatic transmission as Americans know it today has been around ...

Christopher Friedmann is an award-winning journalist and has spent over a decade in journalism covering everything from wine & spirits to travel to music, finance, and technology. For anyone who has ...

The Delhi High Court on December 14 observed that the plea seeking de-registration of political parties having names with caste, religious, ethnic or linguistic connotations has to be decided by the ...

The Arabic aphorism “Likulli maqāmin maqālun” means “for every place, there is a [proper] remark”: the linguistic etiquette that each occasion necessitates a specific wording, or choice of words. We ...

My daughter’s teacher uses curse words in his teaching. She thinks he does it to impress the students. She doesn’t like it and neither do I. What can I do? A hallmark of the stereotypical “cool” ...

An office within the University of Southern California's School of Social Work says it is removing the term "field" from its curriculum because it may have racist connotations related to slavery. The ...

References including "field work" and "going into the field" may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers "that are not benign", the school of social work at the University ...