HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said its name can be pronounced with either an “aitch” or a “haitch” because it respects ...

My mates say ‘haitch’. But, dear reader, I’m here to tell you: it’s ‘aitch’,” wrote Mr Rajan. The linguistic history of the ...

Some friends and I, with too much time on our hands, have long been collecting examples of such expressions, which we call ...

It's been a long old year. Unless, of course, you decided to go large and have a brat summer. The rest of us either struggled ...

Enshittification went beyond the online effluent that accounts for a large chunk of sporting discourse. It was there in a broader sense in the every word, act and deed of Fifa, whose busy year of ...

Mistletoe took its name from the Old English for 'poop twig', thanks to the plant's seeds being propagated by the droppings ...

You might have heard Christmas songs that feature the word 'Yuletide', but do you know what it actually means? It turns out ...

Dictionary.com says it's "the Christmas season" and explains that it was originally a pagan holiday celebrated by ancient ...

Discover how ancient languages, pagan traditions, and Christian influences shaped the names Yule, Noel, and Christmas into ...

Often, or mostly, it is given the name of EGO. It is a personality defect so much in evidence today that you can find ...

(9) Útluighe "an outlaw'" goes back ultimately to Old Norse útlagi, though the term was perhaps borrowed into Irish through ...