My parents spend half of the year on an island off the coast of North Carolina where many of the residents speak a distinct and alienating dialect of English—the Ocracoke or “Hoi Toider” brogue, which ...

It's not unusual for the words of influencers to gain popularity. But the influential philosopher Henry David Thoreau was born more than 200 years ago -- and now a term he's credited with introducing, ...

This is the seventh installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. In a matter of weeks, “6 7” has transformed from two sequential numbers to a phrase so ...