Quite a strange word because it can mean to go slowly or ... When it originally appeared around 1836 in a public ledger it was a verb meaning to go away quickly. The leisurely version of the ...

You know the type. But even so, we were stumped when it came to a list of some of the most unusual words in the English dictionary. Compiled by the folks at Raconteur, the list includes nouns ...

It’s a strange old word ... in English linguistics at the University of Manchester says the word’s ‘superpositive’ meaning is a factor in this change. She told BBC Bitesize: “This ...