Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
The overlapping of the lower teeth by the upper.
- ‘She has a slight overbite, which is difficult to notice.’
- ‘He had a rather big nose and seemed to have an overbite.’
- ‘In particular, he reported that abnormal children with stress-related emotional disturbances had a higher number of instances of overbite and open bite than did normal children.’
- ‘He also had large incisor teeth and the typical overbite characteristic of other kings from his family.’
- ‘Liam, the orange-haired boy with the overbite from my Political Science class, stopped beside my table.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
The definitions of ‘buddy’ and ‘bro’ in the OED have recently been revised. We explore their history and increase in popularity.