Words are full of pulchritude, and while using such a term to describe words as beautiful might seem a bit supercilious and sesquipedalian in this day and age, the truth is that the dictionary holds ...

A new book exploring the origins of common food terms — from bialy to lima bean to bibimbap — is a fascinating history of how we eat and cook. By Kim Severson Used judiciously, the snappy tidbits of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In September, the perspicacious minds at Merriam-Webster added a whopping 690 words and phrases to its dictionary — one of which ...