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English is a gloriously broken language where certain words mean totally opposite things depending solely on context. To 'dust' a cake means adding sugar, but…
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Before 1847, staring vacantly at monuments wasn't considered a distinct hobby. The concept of 'sightseeing' emerged as the middle class suddenly gained enough…
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When society is too lazy to invent a brand-new word, it just crashes two existing ones together and hopes for the best. Smog is just smoke and fog. Brunch is…
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We have had a name for overpriced souvenir stands for nearly a century. The phrase was first recorded in 1939 to describe businesses specifically designed to…
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Humanity finally admitted that sleeping on dirt is awful. The mashup of 'glamorous' and 'camping' was coined in the UK and added to dictionaries shortly…
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Because tumbling down a mountain wasn't enough, we had to invent a fancy French phrase for surviving the ordeal. Coined in the Alps during the 1950s, the term…
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