Poverty, the Covid pandemic and activities being replaced with screens are causing an explosion of speech and language issues ...

The viral "six-seven" meme, dismissed as "brain rot," is interpreted as an unconscious global ritual by Gen Alpha. Numerology suggests the chant, a fusion of "old order" (6) and "new mystery" (7), ...

Dealing with toxic people can leave you scratching your head and questioning your own reality. They have this uncanny ability to twist your words, leaving you feeling like you're the bad guy. It's ...

Along with simple shortenings such as n. or num., one of the more curious methods is the number sign or hash symbol, #. And as that symbol gradually simplified and merged together over time, our ...

Rayan Cherki probably didn't envisage his first Premier League assist being a headed flick-on inside his own half, but welcome to England's top flight in 2025/26. Even Pep Guardiola isn't averse to ...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

Despite President Donald Trump portraying San Francisco as a hotbed of crime, violent crime in the city has dropped to the lowest levels in decades. The San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) tally ...

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...

John Prine never had a chance to write his own memoir. But in the late 2010s, he’d begun working on one with the author Tom Piazza. After Prine died in 2020 — from complications due to Covid-19 — ...

Our phones are a direct line to us, but sometimes we don’t want to give our numbers out to just anyone. They have more information attached to them than we might realize. Instead of giving your real ...

Eight of the album’s singles that preceded the LP’s release made the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Six of the tracks became Top 10s, with “Love Somebody” bowing at Number One in November and ...

Nearly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without access to electricity, creating huge barriers to development. Not only does it stifle industrial growth and agricultural efficiency, but it ...