Tis the season for SAD to creep into our minds and give us a serious case of the winter blues, SAD as in Seasonal Affective Disorder, and this winter is looking to be bleaker and more angst-inducing than ever.Now before...

[https://youtu.be/uAUEk8nbZJ8] (YouTube link)The way people interpret a word can totally change depending on the context. The very first story in this video illustrates that: Because Bugs Bunny used a fairly unfamiliar w...

Words can't describe* the joy I feel when I ran ac...  ...ordsmith) crafts each words carefully with proper etymology - things like word roots, prefixes, suffixes and...

I was at the Ford Museum in Detroit recently and they had a couple Duesenberg Model J cars from the 1930s on display. As I was standing in awe of these cars, two women were standing next to me talking about how the phras...

1844, from berserk (n.) "No...  ...d this nifty project called Illustrated Etymology , where he invited artists to illustrate...

Pigs don't sweat much, so they wallow in the mud to cool off their bodies. So how did the English language expression "sweating like a pig" develop? It's actually a reference to pig iron, which is form of iron smelting:...

It's easy to see how some nicknames came to be. "Alex" for instance is often shortened to "Al." But do you ever wonder how "Richard" becomes "Dick," William becomes "Bill"...

AskMen has a pretty nifty post about the 5 things you didn't know about Shakespeare. Take, for instance, the word "torture" - yep, good ol' Will invented it (well, technically he made the noun "torture&quo...