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It isn't an apple and it doesn't grow on pine trees. So how did its pineapple earn its name? Take a deep dive with us into the fruit's history.

Jazz is a musical genre born in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century Thanks to the meeting of African ...

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The word amuk is Indonesian and Malay for rage or to rage. In the late 17th century, colonial powers violently mistranslated the word, the origins of ‘amok’ and ‘running amuck’ in English, as well as ...

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

As more English words enter the Korean language, linguists are fighting back - but finding alternatives to 'asap' and ...

The prophet Zecharia foretells of the Messianic Era – which will occur long after the Canaanites had ceased to exist as a nation – when there will no longer be any c’naani in the Holy Temple ...

And just as words and their meaning can impose a certain reality, the opposite also can be true: A word’s connotations can evolve alongside the things it denotes. Etymologies are not diktat. “The ...