colloquialisms

When did people start using the phrase to refer to a group of two or more?

And the origins of the term “Kafkaesque.”

It happens every year.

Or better put, why is it something so many outside of the South have recently adopted?

A web dictionary devoted to historical English slang—five hundred years of the vulgar tongue.

It crops up in our speech dozens of times every day, although it apparently means little. So how did "OK" conquer the world?

The use of ‘y'all’ has often been seen as vulgar, low-class and uncultured. That’s starting to change.

From Kentucky to Wales and all across the Atlantic, the enslaved and downtrodden got married – by leaping over a broom. Why?