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American author and humorist (1835–1910)
The word "nigger" is defined across standard dictionaries as an extremely offensive racial slur directed at Black people; major lexicons call it "probably the most offensive word in English" and note ...
The phrase most commonly traces to a misunderstanding of the Christian monogram IHS/IHC — abbreviations of the first three Greek letters of Jesus — which English speakers, especially in America, read ...
The word "hello" in its modern spelling is first documented in printed English in 1826, but it arrived as part of a family of attention-calling forms (holla, hollo, hallo, hullo) with roots much earli...
Mark Twain repeatedly warned about the quality and effects of information: his oft-cited maxim — “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis‑informed” — ...
Yes — online phrases and quotations commonly circulate in ways that make misattribution, transcription mistakes, and deliberate misinformation all plausible explanations; researchers and journalists s...
was unmistakably a committed advocate for empire: he wrote explicit defenses of colonial rule such as “The White Man’s Burden,” promoted a civilising mission grounded in racial hierarchy, and remained...
The short answer is: no—the “H” in “” is not a reliably documented abbreviation for a historical middle name or formal title; it is a linguistic accident with several competing explanations rather tha...