In my teenage years, I believed my father knew every word in the English language. Whenever I stumbled upon an unfamiliar ...

As America approaches its 250th birthday, the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society is highlighting the ...

The term “mog,” according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, essentially means “to outclass” another person, though it ...

"Spinster" wasn't always a criticism. Here's the story of how this term evolved from a label for a person who spun wool and thread for a living to an unfortunate, single, older woman.

When we play quality teams, we are locked in,” Ime Udoka says of the Rockets. “You see the pace, the movement, and the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...

“Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is ...

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Merriam-Webster declared "slop" its 2025 word of the year on Monday, a sign of growing wariness around artificial intelligence. Slop is now defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced ...