Sophia, a 13-year-old from Naperville, Illinois, says she, her sister, and friends use search it up to mean look it up online, despite her mother’s objection that it should be look it up or just search it. The phrasing is real and especially common...
Steve from Fort Worth grew up hearing his mother from the English Midlands use cute to mean sly or shrewd, not adorable. That older sense is the original one, from acute, with the initial a lost by aphesis. The meaning shifted from keen or...
Liz from Grand Prairie, Texas, asks why her mother used anywho as a way to wrap up a long story or pivot to a new topic. Anywho and anyhoo are playful variants of anyhow, first appearing as representations of Irish speech and now common in North...
