Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream is not named for Hä...  ..., including semi-archaic uses in English like the word naïve, as well as in French, Dutch, Spanish,...  ...ages.So Häagen-Dazs is a thoroughly nonsense word . You'd have to be a real ice cream fan to learn h...  ...auml;agen-Dazs fans. But what...

(Image credit: John-Patrick Thomas)Certain profess...  ...he same way, and we hardly notice it anymore: the word mortician.It has a fancy, classical Latin feel to...  ...as more customer-friendly than undertaker, which originally referred to the contractor who undertakes all the...  ...it.Decades later, critics...

Today I Found Out takes a deep dive into the histo...  ...a deep dive into the history and etymology of the word "boob." The word was considered impolite when I was young, but now...  ...histler takes us through its early uses, possible origins , and its other meaning as a slan...

The following is an article from Uncle Jo...  ...to literature? Here's a few choice phrases, which origin can be traced back to comic strips:Security Blank...  ...ast. Thanks to the comic strip, by the 1930s the word "milquetoast" had become common slang to describe...