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Booyah — Dictionary.com Is 30! A Trip Back to 1995

Five Letter Word For Favorite New York Times Crossword Clues?...

Hobbies & Passions

Why Did These 10 Songs Go Viral?

Pop Culture

Why Is Thursday Named For A Comic Book Character?

Pop Culture

8 TV Moments For Grammar Nerds

Pop Culture

Does Your Crossword Style Say About You?

Fun

Master The Secrets Of Crosswordese

Hobbies & Passions

How To Answer That Foreign Language Clue In Your Crossword

Hobbies & Passions

How Books Have Influenced Our Favorite Songs

Literature

Where Did “Cinderella Story” Come From?

Pop Culture

Who Wrote The Alphabet Song?

Language Stories

The Saddest Literary Deaths We’re Still Crying About

Literature

Slam Poetry Is Helping People Work Through Their Pain

History
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Words We Know Because Of Star Trek

Whether or not you're a Trekkie, you are bound to know (and even use) some of these phrases made popular by the beloved sci-fi franchise, Star Trek.

Beam over to these words!

Why Do Americans Call Football “Soccer”?

Why does the most popular sport in the world have two names? Learn about where the names "football" and soccer" come from, and who uses them now.

Find out which term came first.

Have You Ever Heard Of These Strange Studies?

From Escapology to Scatology, we’re touring the campus of out-of-the-ordinary fields of study in which some people specialize. Did your campus have these majors?

Discover your next major.