Rather, a crush is a way to take up space, and to make something about yourself known to the world.

the caustic ‘sarcasm’ originated in a Greek verb for ‘tearing flesh’.

We took the modern word ‘coffee’ from the Arabic qahwah, said to be rooted in a term for ‘having no appetite’ and to refer to coffee’s stimulating properties. In the seventeenth century, when coffee was introduced into Christian Europe, it was promptly condemned by the Councilmen of Pope Clement VIII as being ‘the bitter invention of Satan’. The Po

The establishment The act of going to the pub has necessitated varying levels of subterfuge over the centuries, and drinking establishments have consequently dispensed a fair number of euphemisms along with their pints. Among the nicknames for one of the few places that, alongside the church, is open to all, are fuddle-caps hall and tippling booth