Never! No, we always tell performers to “break a leg.” You probably know what this common saying means, but where does break a leg come from? As a longtime copy editor, I’m something of a word sleuth.

Ten year-old Anjali Agarwal is not known for making spelling errors in her fourth grade English class at Saint Joseph ...

Held Saturday morning at the Gamm Theatre on Jefferson Boulevard, the Rhode Island State Spelling Bee featured 18 contestants ...

After 21 rounds of competition, 6th-grader Elliana Pagliarini won the Rhode Island State Spelling Bee for the second year in ...

In Restem, LLC v. Jadi Cell, LLC, No. 2023-2054 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 13, 2025), the Federal Circuit upheld the Patent Trial and ...

Former Slovakia president Andrej Kiska on Monday urged European countries to speak up for Tibet and remarked on the similarities between its situation and that of Ukraine. Speaking on the 66th ...

Do you ever feel like your vocabulary is… lacking? Like you reach for the same words repeatedly, while others effortlessly ...

Last week, we showed that some letters in the standard alphabet have no sound or are the wrong letter to spell the way the word was pronounced. Some of these ...

Dharamshala , The Kashag of the Tibetan government-in-exile has reiterated its commitment to the middle-way approach of the Dalai Lama to resolve the China-Tibet conflict through non-violence and ...

Have you ever picked up a kettle bell at the gym and wondered why pounds is abbreviated as lbs.? The word pounds contains neither the letter L nor the letter B, so where did this seemingly random ...

Sequoia Middle School eighth grader Isla Jay placed second in the Tulare County Spelling Bee on Thursday.

Diane Christian, “Occasion Poems”, published by BlazeVOX books - Occasion Poems were suggested by colleague, friend, and poet Robert Creeley, who thought it would be a good idea to have poems for ...