How Words Get Their Meanings
Some of our words have quite history. In the Oxford English Dictionary there are full entries for meanings of 171,476 words that are currently in use and 47,156 that are considered obsolete. Here are five of those words (or word phrases) and how their current meaning came to be. These particular words came from uses […]
March is Women’s History Month
So much of the incredible work women have done was rarely acknowledged, let alone actually celebrated, until the early 20th Century. Women’s History Month in America started out small. In 1982 on March 7th, Women’s History Week began. In 1987 Congress passed legislation requesting and authorizing the President to declare the entire month as Women’s History Month. […]