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The Culture | In a Word

Colorful stories of acronyms are often false

Need just the right word? Why German probably has it.

Why we send ‘congratulations’ but not ‘congratulation’

Taking a ‘safari’ through Swahili-inspired words

Dive into the tropical fish nursery of the future

A glassy sweeper egg, moments from hatching, is seen through a microscope at Roger Williams University’s Wet Lab in Bristol, Rhode Island, where parent offspring are bred for the New England Aquarium's aquaculture program. The round bubble is an oil droplet, which is a nutritional source similar to an egg yolk.

‘If’ brings us into the realm of possibilities

‘Wildly’ encroaches on the territory of ‘widely’

What Old English reveals about the culture

‘Woolgathering’ and other not-so-idle pursuits

Feeling reluctant to admit your ‘reticence’?

How lawyers assumed the title of ‘esquire’

Why does English have so many words for 'lawyer'?

How did ‘Juneteenth’ get its name?

Monkeys in sleeves and other delightful idioms

Sorting out the changing meaning of ‘grooming’

Monitor's Best: Top 5

‘Goodnight Moon’: 75 years in the great green room

What China is – and isn’t – learning from military drills near Taiwan

Monitor Breakfast

Union rebound? AFL-CIO’s Shuler sees promise, long road ahead.

Presidential plantation shifts telling of history to let all voices rise

Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who changed the world

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