Many languages have specific words for “the day before yesterday”. The Portuguese call it anteontem, in Spanish, it’s anteayer, in German, vorgestern. The English language however, is...
The word whiskey or whisky is the English equivalent of the Goidelic name (Irish: uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic: uisge beatha) literally meaning “water of life”. Earlier anglicizations include usquebaugh, usquebea (1706)...
The word geek has had various meanings over the last five centuries. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word geek as: 1: a carnival performer often billed as...