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I’m here to look into and fully explain some common phrases and concepts we now use in everyday speech that were so infrequently used before 2020.

If you’ve ever been curious about the origins of fruits’ names in the English language, then look no further — here’s a comprehensive list of some of the most popular fruits.

Both UC Berkeley and the city of Berkeley are home to a slew of stereotypes. We’re here to confirm or debunk some of them from a local standpoint, once and for all.

For the first time since 1996, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has dedicated a chapter to mountains in one of its reports.

My public love for the phrase “poor succulent mom” is a pretty good indicator of what’s going on: I’ve been looking for a hobby not for myself, but to seem cool to others.

UC Berkeley is a competitive environment and, like in many other competitive environments, one-upmanship — a culture in which people feel compelled or pressured to put other people down — seems to exist here.

Merriam-Webster says that the earliest written or printed use of “pregame” was in 2004, but it wasn’t until this past month that the word made its permanent mark on the dictionary in its newest, college-friendly form.

As a copy editor of this publication, the bona fide final bastion against hasty mistakes, I take my job seriously as a prophet of George and Charles Merriam, wielding my holy book.

Exit college with a little less bitterness and a little more sweet.

No matter how early a paper is assigned, we UC Berkeley students always manage to put it off until the last second; what tabs aid us in this mission?