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From Norman Mailer's 'fug' to Trump's Oval Office: How a four-letter word conquered the English languageThe F-word's journey from censored print to common usage is explored. Norman Mailer faced publisher edits in his debut novel, substituting ...- Quote of the Day by French author Voltaire: ‘Every man is guilty of all the good he…’ Powerful words on regrets in lifeVoltaire, a prominent Enlightenment thinker, left a vast literary legacy. His writings championed reason, tolerance, and justice. He fierce...
- Quote of the day by Napoleon Bonaparte: “The best cure for the body is a quiet mind” — inspiring lessons on mental peace, stress-free living and emotional strength by the legendary French emperor and military leaderNapoleon Bonaparte’s famous quote about a quiet mind shares an important life lesson about peace and health. The story explains how calm th...
- Canada proverb of the day: “You can't make a hockey team without breaking a few legs…” – Life lessons on sacrifice, tough decisions and why success often comes with a costThis proverb says success is not easy. To achieve big goals, people must make hard choices and face some loss or problems. It explains that...
- Word of the Day: SmaragdineThe word smaragdine is a rare English adjective used to describe a bright emerald green color. It is linked to the gemstone emerald and has...
- Word of the day: PressologyPressology is a word that describes speaking in too many words. It is about long and extra speech that is not needed. The word has Greek an...
- Quote of the day: “Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” — Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte, born in Corsica, rose to power during the French Revolution. He became Emperor, conquering much of Europe with his mili...
- Route back to rote learning [Repeat]Nigel Richards, a 57-year-old New Zealander and renowned Scrabble champion, won the Spanish World Scrabble Championship without knowing Spa...
- Why so serious and rigid, l'Academie?The Académie Française, France's language regulator, recently unveiled the ninth edition of its dictionary after decades of revisions. The ...
- What overcooked gibberish is this 'chef's kiss'?!The Cambridge Dictionary's inclusion of 'chef's kiss' in its 2024 entries has sparked debate. Critics argue that such terms, originating fr...
- Writer Joyce Carol Oates wins France's $218,000 Cino del Duca World PrizeThe prize is often seen as a stepping stone to the Nobel.
- From 'Panglossian countenance' to 'Floccinaucinihilipilification', RBI reinvents GreenspeakGreenspan was known for his wordy statements, attempting to prevent the markets from overreacting.
- What's floccinaucinihilipilification? Ask the Reserve Bank of IndiaCentral bank watchers were left scrambling for their dictionaries to decipher RBI Guv's speech.
- Niti Aayog, IIT developing Indian-language botA senior government official told ET that NITI Aayog has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna, under director ...
- Dr D's column: Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann, and who should play second fiddleSince ‘Lionel’ comes from the word lion, can the king of the jungle be asked to play lieutenant?
- Do you know the history behind the infamous word 'mafia'?The word has two distinct etymologies.
- French tongue is twisting around not just alien words but also alien foodsSome of the neologisms produced by this very French mingling of tongues would just as easily find a place in the patois of Britain.
- A suffix, an emoji among 2015's top wordsFor the first time, Merriam-Webster named on December 15 the suffix 'ism' as its 2015 word of the year.
- Now, Google will translate road signs to HindiGoogle Translate's new update will enable you to point the camera at say, a road sign in a given language, and convert it to English, or vi...
- Why call it Indian-English or Nigerian-English? Indian or Nigerian would doWords from all sorts of languages & sources finding a place in what is called the Collins English Dictionary, begs the question whether the...
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