One of the longest words in the English language, this political term emerged in 19th-century Britain. It comes from Latin roots: anti- (against), dis- (apart), establishment (organized church ...

The saying long time, no see can be traced back to the 19th century. In a Boston Sunday Globe article from 1894, the words are applied to a Native American speaker. The broken English phrase was ...

As newcomers master a new language, they lend words from their native lexicon to the rest of us. For example, the English language — or maybe we should just call it American — has borrowed ...