Blog Excerpts

For Presidents' Day: Where Did "President" Come From Anyway?

Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2016

As the United States celebrates Presidents' Day, it's a good time to mull over how we ended up calling the national leader "president" in the first place. Executive editor Ben Zimmer spoke to NPR's All Things Considered about the term's history.


You can listen to the audio and read NPR's writeup here.

Article Topics:
Click here to read more articles from Blog Excerpts.
Other articles about:
Word Origins:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Thu Jul 21 12:00:00 EDT 2022
Scale Your Onboarding
Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2022
Politics:
Suffrage and Language
Mon Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2020
Unidentified Aerial Horse Apples
Wed Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019
Words:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Thu Jul 21 12:00:00 EDT 2022
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
Fri Aug 13 09:00:00 EDT 2021