Every morning, I crossed a stretch of railway tracks on the way to my school. The tracks lay less than a hundred meters from ...

An idiom is a phrase or expression that conveys a meaning separate from the literal interpretation of its individual words. For example, the idiom "once in a blue moon" means "something that ...

The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), a formidable Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, faced a surprising defeat in 2015 when a 30-year-old French Rubis-class submarine, the Saphir, "sank" it during a ...

As for its origins, the word first appeared in France around the Middle Ages, as the now lost verb choeter, which meant to be/act trendy or smart. French Renaissance writer François Rabelais was ...

A French TikToker struggling to repeat one English word has sent the Internet down an accent spiral. TikTok user @tatatopsecret has been posting videos where she, a French native speaker, challenges ...

The use of "anno domini" and "before Christ" to mark time began in the early days of Christianity, and they're still used to track calendar years today. When reading historical texts or delving ...

“This court has in a number of judgments held that secularism was always part of the basic ... word “socialism” would curtail personal liberty. He added that preamble cannot be amended through ...

Her parents, Czech immigrants, had Sedivy in Vienna, before moving with her to Italy and then Montreal, where French battled ... not yet congealed into meaning.” Words are “like fish ...

They might be repeating words or phrases to themselves for their own purposes—for example, to "practice" an idea or as a calming mechanism. The repetition could be stimming, but it may have no meaning ...