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Some Words Feel Truer in Spanish
My earliest relationship with language was defined by rules. As an immigrant who came to this country from Peru at age 4, I spent half of my days in kindergarten occupied with learning the rules of the English language. There was the tricky ...
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Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515 Million Wordles
Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to ADIEU?
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Who Are You Calling ‘Delulu’?
How a shorthand for delusion became popular among Gen Z-ers and young millennials.
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Progressives Aren’t Liberal
Remember when “liberal” was a dirty word? In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, who often prefaced it with a damning “tax and spend,” may have been the most effective of bashers. But the most blatant attack was in the early ’90s, after Newt Gingrich’s ...
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In the Beginning Were the Word Nerds
Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Top 10 Hardest and Easiest Spelling Bee Words, Sept. 23-29
Bad luck came in threes (and a seven) in this week’s toughest tests.
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New Features for an Updated WordleBot
We’ve added a 14-day average of your scores, a 90-day window to review past games and more information on players’ guesses.
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Introducing Spelling Bee Buddy: Your Personalized Daily Bee Helper
It will offer customized hints, but only if you want them.
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The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode
A year ago, the lexicographic grandees at Oxford Languages dutifully stuck out their arms and chose “vax” as the 2021 Word of the Year. But this year, the venerable publisher behind the Oxford English Dictionary has — like the rest of us, apparently ...
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