A lot of terms you might think came from science a...  ...actually came from science fiction. Some of those words , like robot, cryostasis, and spaceship were born...

[http://youtu.be/q-HzyUm1cSg] (YouTube link)John G...  ...Tube link)John Green tells us the history of some words you never wondered about in the latest mental_flo...  ...d of creepy to think about. But there you go. The word Jumbo was a proper name before it meant "large."...

English is a fascinating language, particularly in...  ...nating language, particularly in that most of our words come from other languages. While most words come from some sort of root words that have travelled from ancient languages to mor...  ...ncient Greece. Here are a...

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:...

Allan Metcalf has recently written a book about th...  ...recently written a book about the history of the word "okay" (in its various spellings). He has summar...  ...zed his findings in an article for the BBC. This word , Metcalf argues, is phonetically structured in su...  ...ands out clearly, easily distin...

According to the blog Your Mind Blown, the first d...  ...Your Mind Blown, the first documented use of the word 'nerd' was in the 1950 Dr. Seuss book If I Ran th...  ...rmindblown.com/post/993403657/dr-suess-coined-the- word

Being born a Jill, I always have had an involuntar...  ...e Name: The name Jack came from a Middle English word , “jakke,” used to refer to any male, particul...  ...n who could do a variety of tasks. The use of the word “Jack” was only included because it was still...  ...and there are a variety of sto...