I set about looking for the old books in which I had first read the story while caring for my elderly mother, who was in the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease, a few years ago in her home.

Like the - in Old English, the word for enemy is unfreond (ph), so it's like unfriend. And today, unfriend has become a verb that we use for social media and stuff. But we don't talk about our ...

An old book smell is often described as “musty,” but in a research setting, people chose other words including ‘smokey” or “woody.” “Chocolate” and “coffee” are usually high on ...

Words get new meanings while losing old ones. 24/7 Tempo used the Oxford University and Dictionary.com collaboration Lexico.com’s list of Archaic Words That Used To Be Common In English to ...

The new Scrabble book includes at least one old-fashioned word that simply fell under the radar for years: yeehaw. "Yeehaw is like so many of the older, informal terms.

The children's authors agreed that some classic books, such as Wind in the Willows and Treasure Island, might be a bit daunting for newer readers, but that shouldn't stop kids from giving them a go.

Click here to see 36 old words we use today but with new meaning. Oleh_Slobodeniuk / Getty Images. Abroad. Abroad once meant out of doors.