As I’ve said in the past, going a day without hearing an old saying or slang term is pretty hard, because the English language is full of them and we Americans love them.
In the interest of strengthening peoples’ knowledge of stuff that doesn’t really matter, here is another set of odd, but true, tidbits of relatively useless information.
Due to the thickness of my skull and the rather primitive simplicity of my brain, there are certain things I simply can’t comprehend no matter how hard I try.
The office of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt recently released a list of the top 10 consumer complaints from 2021, and it depicts that Missouri residents have a major lack of understanding about the subject of unwanted phone calls. Of the 126,100 total consumer complaints the AG’s office reportedly received in 2021, a whopping 39,244 […]
Like residents of several regions of the United States, people who live in the Ozarks have developed some unique and interesting ways of utilizing the English language.
In light of circumstances this week, I thought I’d dust off an entry in this series that first ran in the spring of 2016 and roll it out one more time.
A recent post that received a lot of attention on social media indicated the word “news” is actually an acronym standing for “notable events, weather and sports.”
On Aug. 28, 1989, the Missouri Division of Veteran’s Affairs became the Missouri Veterans Commission with an expanded benefits program for all Missouri veteran residents.