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From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has the distinction of being the first Indian word bo...more

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Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, gol...more

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Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to occupy themselves with m...more

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By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that 'Noah's boy' was a slice of ham (since Ham was one of Noah’s sons) a...more

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Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United Stat...more

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These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous hominids who roamed...more

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If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they wil...more