To appreciate the thrust of the insult motherfucker doesn't require knowledge of the technology, or culture, or local history of any particular milieu; the logic behind it is virtually ageless, because it is …

May 30, 2025 · I have been poking around wondering about the colloquial usage of on tomorrow in Southern American English and wondering about its origins. I can find some records of official usage …

"The rest is history" is an easy enough idiom to parse. It means that the remainder of a story is so well known that it belongs to that part of the past which gets to be history: it doesn't need to...

Jan 29, 2014 · I understand that the letter "J" is relatively new — perhaps 400–500 years old. But since there has long been important names that begin with J, such as Jesus, Joshua, Justinian, etc., and …

What is the history of the word "troubleshoot"? At face value, it seems to be mean "aiming for trouble." Which must be short-hand for locating the source of the trouble by …

Mar 11, 2011 · Truth in history reveals as fully the decline of the race as its rise; of the decadence of knowledge as its growth. This example is especially striking because it argues that assuming that …

What is the etimology of word History? Is it in English word His Story, or is this only another fancy coincidence?

Jun 21, 2018 · What was the phrase clean-slate originally used for? Or did it always refer to restart in something?

Mar 20, 2019 · A Hathi Trust search of the bilingual (Spanish/English) edition of the Cecil Jane translation of The Four Voyages of Columbus: A Documentary History reports 90 instances of the …

Jun 22, 2018 · The Portal to Texas History archive is restricted to small-town newspapers and college newspapers—no big metropolitan dailies with their many copyrighted and syndicated stories from …