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  1. 'Dilly' is thought to be a shortening and alteration of 'delightful.'

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    Just eight more shopping days until Saturnalia! Are you ready?

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    If this collection of hundred-year-old cat memes doesn't take Twitter by storm, then I just don't know who you are anymore, internet.

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    If you pronounce it 'heighth,' you once would've been in good company. About 200 years ago.

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    'Sin' is one of the rare words to enter the language over 1000 years ago (Old English 'syn'), but largely retain its original meaning.

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    Big announcement. This Tuesday. The Internet. Be there.

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    This edition (the great revision of 1864 of Webster's Unabridged) was the first English dictionary to include engravings.

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    📈 ‘Surrogacy’ is our top lookup after the resignation of Trent Franks.

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    In 'dad bod,' the word 'dad' is technically still a noun. 'Daddest bod,' however, would make it an adjective.

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    Tenebrous Umbra Crepuscule Words for the goth in all of us.

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    'Graham crackers' are named for a dietary reformer who was twice attacked by butchers “for denouncing meat as sexually arousing.”

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    Our word 'skosh' comes from the Japanese 'sukoshi,' which translates as "a tiny bit" or "a small amount."

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