Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kaukauna means the place of the pike or stopping place of the pickerel. Reader question: What are the meanings behind the names ...

Meaning: ‘Chutney’ is a flavourful condiment made by grinding or cooking ingredients like fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, ...

One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. In more cases than one may think, geographic names were derived from a Native American word or ...

abhinaya: technique of facial expression in dance. angrezi: something British; from angrez: Englishman. anna: Indian coin, worth about one cent; see rupee. ashram: community of devotees withdrawn from ...

I remember walking down a busy street in Delhi during my first stay in India and noting the different ways in which the same words were written in Latin script. Lakshmi here, Luxmi there. Since then I ...