Roger was one of the first words for "R" in early aviation phonetic alphabets and came to mean "message received." ...

One woman was left confused when she looked at her niece's ABC book where one letter was particularly unexpected.

Amanda Dwyer recounts an awkward situation of being asked to spell out her last name using the phonetic alphabet.

One letter never appears in any U.S. state name. It’s not J, Z, or X. Here’s why Q was left out and how that happened. The ...

The report, generally taken as a temperature check of the bullishness of UK advertisers, led with a positive note: after a ...

A new word in an old language is now on stop signs on Tsawwassen First Nations (TFN) lands, a testament to the nation’s past.

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Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

We’ve probably all seen some old newsreel or documentary from The Before Times where the narrator, using his best Mid-Atlantic accent, described those newfangled computers as “thinking machines,” or ...

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