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Maria Kampyli argues Greek in Australia is declining not from disinterest, but due to education costs and systemic barriers ...

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A Greek immigrant brought ice cream to Colombia in the 1930's -- and since then, the business has become the ice cream kings ...

It's not just the quintessential corporate jargon word. "Synergy" goes back hundreds of years, with history in Christianity, ...

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In his speech to this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney mourned the demise of ...

Word of the Day: Discombobulation is a striking English word used to describe confusion, disorientation, or a temporary ...

In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French ...