It seems only fair to mention here that the word for turkey in the land that calls itself Türkiye is hindi.

When I moved to Austin, Texas in the late seventies, might could was common in the rural areas and remarked upon humorously and frequently by my colleagues at the University of Texas. It was employed to mean "maybe one could." Although used only by native Texans, It seemed a fine addition ...

It may be jaded to focus on the language of reporting rather than on the victim, but the expression "decapitated head" is jarring and perhaps completely wrong. The victim was decapitated, his body was decapitated, but the head was severed or separated from the body or perhaps "decorpo...

Thanks very much for the quick reply. I'll certainly add etymonline to my favorites and will trust my memory for a while longer.

Greetings. I was taught long ago -- or at least I read -- that the "sc" particle/morpheme from Latin meant "becoming" as in a process. So words such as "senescence," "evanescence," and today's word "spumescence" (which my spell checker rejects) denot...