The steep route is called Dead Horse Hill, a label possibly dating to the 1700s. A common explanation is that the hill got ...

Somehow the word 'isn't it' morphed into 'ennit' and is used as either a question or as a reply in agreement. "Listening to people talk in Worcester can be confusing." "Ennit," comes the reply.

A decade ago, when the restaurant opened, the owners recognized a bit of Worcester history, opting to condense the name into two words and to use all lowercase letters. There's the story of a ...