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RIVERSIDE pubs gardens are the ultimate place to cool down from the heat the UK has recently been experiencing. With some ...
With burgers sizzling and classic rock thumping, many Americans revel in summer cookouts—at least until that wayward cousin ...
Chips and fries are just the beginning of how different American and British food names really are American vs. British food ...
From mythical winds to desert nomads, Volkswagen has a habit of picking strange names for its compacts, sedans, and SUVs.
Recent brain-computer-interface (BCI) devices have made it possible to translate neural activity directly into text and even ...
Selena Gomez seemingly used an offensive Spanish slang term during an interview with Colombian pop artist, Karol G.
The potential benefits of deploying large language models, from their low-cost, easy-to-use accessibility to their context sensitivity about the meaning of two-word phrases, cannot be ignored. In the ...
The Dictionary of the Scots Language definition states that the words jobby, jobbie, or jobie can refer to ‘a lump of excrement’ or be used as ‘contemptuous term for a person’.
Food names form the bulk of additions, but other notables include the Malay expression ‘alamak’ and a colloquial meaning for the word ‘terror’.
In reviewing historical records, interviews, dictionaries, news articles, sound recordings and field notes, some of which dated back to the 1800s, Zahir found 20 different names for Mount Rainier ...
A man argues with Donald Trump supporters outside a rally at New York's Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27. Merriam-Webster announced Monday that its 2024 Word of the Year is "polarization," noting ...