The Modern Greek language has some aspects that would totally baffle a native English speaker for various reasons.

Whatever its earliest meaning might have been, carol was borrowed into English from French in the early Middle Ages and can probably be traced back to an ancient Latin or Greek word for a flute ...

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

Easter' is found in English and German but in most other European languages the word for the festival comes from old words ...

The name George is one of the most popular in Greece, if not the most popular, yet few are aware of its ancient Greek origins ... from the words gi (earth) and ergo (work), meaning “farmer” or one who ...

To help you understand what happens over this holiday period in Czechia, here’s a special edition of our Czech Word of the Week series. This is our list of essential Easter vocabulary, providing you ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is ... When Israel was rendered in Greek in the Septuagint and in the New Testament it was spelt as Ἰσραήλ. It came into Latin as Israel, and that was also used in English ...

Credit: Carole Raddato, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Have you ever wondered about the origins of many ... ways the ancient Greek language and culture have shaped modern English. Besides these ...

People are only now learning what Durex stands for. As it turns out, Durex, is in fact an acronym. The condom-making company’s name is a portmanteau of three different words: Durable, reliable ...

She arrives with no entourage, no makeup, and no trace of the heightened energy we have come to associate with reality TV — just oversized pink Gucci sunglasses and a cosy knitted jumper emblazoned ...

Later, students learn to judiciously use the Liddell and Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon to establish the meaning of words and expand their vocabulary ... Sampled genres may include ...

In other words, Pisa is accusing EODASAAM of arbitrarily ... even though the conclusions from the foreign universities regarding the origin of the fireball were still pending.