By the 1980s, the term "dude" had been around for at least 100 years. In this week's Word of the Week, we explore the long ...

The word "dude" is often associated with the '80s and '90s. But its origin is rooted much, much farther back in American ...

A typical United States generational beef about clothing, and some poetry, seems to have given us a word that today has one ...