Learn about per diem interest, how it's calculated, its role in loans like mortgages, and why it's essential for borrowers to understand before closing a loan.

Below is a Facebook post on Tuesday by former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who found out last week he has Stage 4 pancreatic ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

Five years ago, you handed me a garbage bag and a “one-time-use” mask to be kept in a brown paper bag for 100 hours of use ...

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

Many golf terms stretch back centuries, and contested origins are common. Here is a history of some of golf’s most fundamental words.

mikroman6/Moment/Getty Images (Johnson); amtitus/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (thought bubble) It took roughly eight years for Samuel Johnson and his staff of six helpers to complete the ...

Watch out! Thunder goats are dropping in! They use their magic hammers to make sentences filled with potential. As a team, use your knowledge of adverbs and adverbial phrases to describe verbs and ...

Mastering adjectives and adverbs is crucial for vivid and engaging writing. Many students struggle with this concept, leading to awkward prose and undermining their credibility. Adjectives describe ...