Youth Voices Magazine

05/12/2025

If you think you see a connection between inoculate and ocular ('of or relating to the eye'), you have a good eye—both words look back to oculus, the Latin word for 'eye.' But what does the eye have

05/12/2025

04/12/2025

Despite its meanings suggesting neglect and inattention, frowsy has been kept in steady rotation by English users since the late 1600s. The word (which is also spelled frowzy and has enjoyed other

03/12/2025

Alchemy—the medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy that focused on the attempt to change less valuable metals into gold, to find a universal cure for disease, and to discover a means of

02/12/2025

However hard we try, we can’t cajole the full history of cajole from the cages of obscurity. We know that it comes from the French verb cajoler, meaning 'to give much attention to; to make a fuss over