"Nincompoop" has been voted the UK's favourite sounding word. The term, probably derived in around 1676 from the Latin definition of someone not of a sound mind "non compos mentis", came top of a poll ...
Q: My question is how did the word "handkerchief" come to mean "a piece of cloth for wiping the nose and face"? S.B., Middlesex, N.J. A: The origin of the word "handkerchief" is straightforward when ...
A new survey has revealed a list of 20 words that could go extinct in the next few years after going out of fashion among Britain's youth. Among the words apparently at risk are sozzled, cad and bonk, ...
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