How IKEA – the company that’s got those instantly recognizable, vibrant blue huge buildings – got its name.
Category - Word Play
The origin of the word freelancer.
Veronique explains what goblins have to do with cobalt.
The whale of a tale behind Starbucks’ name.
Veronique tells us how Twitter got its name.
Veronique tells us how the city of Chicago got is name – and it’s claim-to-fame – as “the windy city”.
Veronique tells us about jeans and the legacy of Levi Strauss.
In “Word Wise” Veronique tells us how one of the strangest looking animals on the planet – the walrus – got its name.
In “Word Wise” this week, Christin explains why the US military named a new secret weapon in WWI a tank.
Sometimes names of locations are accidentally confusing but sometimes they are intentionally misleading – and that brings us to how Greenland got is name.
Ever since 1949, kids and adults around the world have been playing with these brightly colored, interlocking plastic bricks.
Veronique helps you get "Word Wise" with this fishy expression.
Veronique tells us the origins of the word Guillotine in this week's Word Wise.