Tag Archives: interest-satire

  1. The Saddest Phrases In The English Language

  2. Has Your Family Been Singing These Kids Song Lyrics Incorrectly?

  3. The Art And Origin Of The Dad Joke

  4. The Most Clever Essay Tricks You Know You’ve Used

  5. What Did The Word “Nice” Use To Mean?

    What’s the origin of nice? Nice, it turns out, began as a negative term derived from the Latin nescius, meaning “unaware, ignorant.” This sense of “ignorant” was carried over into English when the word was first borrowed (via French) in the early 1300s. And for almost a century, nice was used to characterize a “stupid, ignorant, or foolish” person. Starting in the late 1300s, nice began …

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    Expressions For Epic Fails And Major Mistakes

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    What’s It Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics?

    What is a mondegreen? Have you ever heard someone sing the wrong lyrics to a song? Maybe a child gave the nursery rhyme “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” a new meaning by replacing the line “life is but a dream” with “life’s a butter dream.” Or maybe you’ve unironically belted out “Excuse me while I kiss this guy,” instead of Jimi Hendrix’s intended lyrics, “Excuse me …

  8. Naughty Words Kids Use Before They Learn Their Meanings

    Stop us when this starts to sound familiar. You’re chatting away, having a great conversation, and then everyone seems to stop in their tracks. Did they just notice a giant chunk of basil in your front teeth? Catch a whiff of those garlic knots you had with lunch? Or, was it something about that word you used that has your friends’ shoulders shaking and their …

  9. How Our Greatest Strengths Become Weaknesses

    Here are the best good-and-evil duos that we all struggle to keep balanced, you may even learn an antonym or two along the way.

  10. Words Parents Say That Make Our Eyes Roll

  11. Does Your Family Use Any Malapropisms?

    Just about every family has a word that makes sense only to them. Said by children, weird uncles, or parents in the heat of the moment, these words were coined when someone goofed … and yet somehow for these families they stuck. There’s even an official term for this phenomenon: malapropism, a noun that means “an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by …

  12. Celebrity Baby Name Or Past Word Of The Day?

    Can you guess whether these words are celebrity baby names or past Dictionary.com words of the day? You’re intrigued, you know it . . . . and maybe learning these past Word of the Day picks will even inspire some naming creativity (wink, wink). If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser.