Cardiologist: 9 American foods you 'couldn't pay me to eat'—after 20 years of treating heart attacks My Dad Was Gay — But Married To My Mom For 64 Years. As She Died, I Overheard Something I Can't ...

Improve your English pronunciation! Learn how to correctly say 'fifth,' 'sixth,' 'hotel,' and 'February' with common pronunciation mistakes. Trump wants to ‘end’ largest US infrastructure project, a ...

A few years ago, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson pointed out that the best way to expose a German spy would be to ask them to say the word “squirrel,” because “no German, no matter how well they speak ...

The term autism first was used by psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908. He used it to describe a schizophrenic patient who had withdrawn into his own world. The Greek word ''autós'' meant self and the ...

The term diabetes is the shortened version of the full name diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus is derived from the Greek word diabetes meaning siphon - to pass through and the Latin word mellitus ...

Borrowed into English in the 1600s, a cacafuego or cacafugo is a blustering, swaggering boaster. It literally means “fire-pooper” in Spanish. Someone who thinks that they’re more beautiful than they ...

Pumpkins are the bookends of autumn. Headlines about the arrival of pumpkin spice lattes signal summer's end. And soon after the last bites of pumpkin pie at the Thanksgiving table, we turn to plans ...

The Cypriot dialect retains many features of Ancient Greek and is considered to be a dialect of Koine Greek. Credit: Oleg Kr/ CC BY NC ND 2.0 Greek and Greek Cypriot dialects are distinct varieties of ...

The English word “tantalize” comes from the Greek myth of Tantalus. Painting by Giovan Battista Langetti. Credit: Public Domain The English word “tantalize,” which means to torment someone by showing ...

In Türkiye’s Karaman province, archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Eirenopolis at Topraktepe have uncovered a remarkable find: five carbonized bread loaves from the 7th–8th centuries CE. One ...

The term soliloquy comes from the Late Latin ‘sōliloquium’, a combination of ‘solus’ meaning alone and ‘loqui’, meaning to speak. Recorded in English in the late 16th century, the word literally means ...

Humanity has come a long way when it comes to crafty inventions, but some of the earliest innovative minds were the ancient Greeks. The ancient Greeks came up with several inventions that are still ...