‘The high five was invented in 1977’: Etymologists reveal the origins of well-known words and phrases

One of the many mind-bending things about knowing a language is how many words and sayings we use while having next to no idea of their origin. Writing and speech change all the time, and when they are built on for hundreds or thousands of years it’s inevitable that some things are going to get …
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25+ Puntastic Wordplay Memes and Posts That Clown Around With Double Meanings

The English language is truly one of the craziest inventions that human beings have ever come up with. This thing has more than 170,000 words, many of which sound similar to one another, and countless dumb grammatical rules that even native speakers have a problem getting the hang of.  It is basically begging to be …
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A Dictionary Full of 31 Wordplay Memes For The Literate

If there’s one thing I love in this world, it’s words. The past ten years of my life have consisted of constantly consuming as many words as possible for my own mental enrichment. When I was in high school, I was obsessed with learning vocabulary words. We had to do 15 minutes of vocabulary practice …
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41 Polyglot Memes for Language Learners With Their Tongue in a Twist

Whether you’re learning your second, third, or fourth language, there’s always something special about picking up a few words that are unfamiliar. However, your misplaced confidence will quickly deflate when you have your tongue in a twist and your foot in your mouth after accidentally insulting some poor restaurant employee’s grandma. Learning another language can be …
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27 Things That Were So Wrong, They Became Right

Perspective is one heck of a thing. It’s amazing how different people and contexts can change a concept that was once set in stone to something completely different, but it happens all the time! We are more flexible than we give ourselves credit for, even if half the time it’s the product of our own …
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Unpopular Opinions That Are Actually Unpopular

People claim to have «unpopular opinions» all the time, but just because you say an opinion is unpopular doesn’t make it so. One of my unpopular opinions is that, barring an actual emergency, people should not be more than 5 minutes late for anything. Most of y’all probably find that unreasonable, and it likely is, …
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Word Memes For Vocabulary Fans Who Can’t Stop Looking Up Definitions

I love words. I know it might be hard to believe, but nearly every class I took in college had something to do with reading, writing, or language. I was an English major with minors in Professional Writing and Linguistics, so I was quite literally obsessed with the English language. I am addicted to learning …
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Cat Owners Share the Spicy (Yet Wholesome) Things They’ll Tell Their Cat if They Could Speak Kitty Language

Every hooman wishes they could talk to their pet. Although in our lonely moments, most of us talk to our cats and dogs anyways, our pets have pretty much no idea what we’re talking about and blissfully stare into space until they hear their name or the word ‘treat’. But cat owners, what if our …
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Redditors Share Seemingly Normal Names That Are the Most Unfortunate in Other Languages

Names can be tricky things. They are one of the first metrics that other people use to judge us, and it’s not like we needed any more reasons for that to happen. As if there wasn’t enough responsibility placed on parents, choosing what to name a kid can really make or break how they experience …
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Niche Internet Microcelebrity Spotlight: Chinese Teacher Molly

Screen Name: molly_chineseteacher Real Name: Molly Internet Occupation: Language teacher Reason for Fame: Mandarin Chinese has been ranked as one of the hardest languages to learn for native English speakers. With over 100,000 characters compared to the Latin alphabet’s 26 letters, it is probably going takes more than a 14 day streak on Duolingo to …
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