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Dave Wilton

01 Feb 2025

I have a post on the Strong Language blog on the most popular Pornhub search terms in 2024, from hentai to twink to Mormon threesome. Be sure to check it out.

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Words in the News is a weekly, paid-subscriber feature of Wordorigins.org. If you’d like to see more, please upgrade your subscription to a paid level. 17 November 2025 Journalist and podcaster Megyn Kelly became the subject of the news this past week when she repeated a claim on
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Most people, at least in the United States, are familiar with the word rapture as it relates to the apocalyptic Christian doctrine. But that’s a relatively recent development in theology, starting in the eighteenth century and only picking up steam in the nineteenth, and it is one that is
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