some big dude covered in tattoos smoking a cigar infront of my apartment “hey idk if anyone has ever told you but…. you are phenomenal at parallel parking — I’ve seen you a few times like ‘she ain’t ...

You don’t hear the word used much in our conversations these days — not that there isn’t opportunity — but it’s probably one of those words that will pass on when we do. A reader and friend called ...

A guy who called his school superintendent a nincompoop wanted to find out if he might get hit with the same penalty as another man who was banned from school property for calling the superintendent a ...

Q: My question is how did the word "handkerchief" come to mean "a piece of cloth for wiping the nose and face"? S.B., Middlesex, N.J. A: The origin of the word "handkerchief" is straightforward when ...

The controversy was born in the 2014 AFC Championship Game, when some of the balls being used by the Patriots failed a halftime inspection for being under-inflated. Never mind the fact that New ...

The survey found 13 percent of respondents chose "nincompoop" – believed to be derived from the Latin "non compos mentis", meaning not of sound mind – as their favourite sounding English word, The ...

"Nincompoop" has been voted the UK's favourite sounding word. The term, probably derived in around 1676 from the Latin definition of someone not of a sound mind "non compos mentis", came top of a poll ...

The Minnesota Vikings got embarrassed by the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football. The 16 point loss doesn’t give justice to the beating the Falcons defense put on the Vikings’ offense. The ...

A 40-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a series of bank robberies in downtown Brooklyn last week. And he’s probably kicking himself for it. That’s because suspected bank robber Roland ...