A remarkable fact is that many slang words have a classical origin. For example, the word "mill," a vulgarism for a fight, is traceable to the Greek word "hamilla," which means a combat.

Scholars cannot say for sure why hallelujah was preserved intact when nearly every other Hebrew word in the Bible was translated first into Greek and then into Latin (amen is another notable ...

but the word did exist before it became widely used. Most notably, it was part of the title of an unpublished T.S. Eliot poem called "The Triumph of Bullshit." The origin of "fuck" is one of the ...

The plant gets its name from the Old English words mistel, meaning dung ... “Nativity” means birth, and it originates from the Latin word natal. The first nativity scene was created in ...