Cleartext is influenced by the book Thing Explainer by xkcd creator Randall Munroe, which only uses the 1,000 most common English words. Munroe released Simple Text last year, of which Cleartext ...

Mac: Last year, XKCD’s Randall Monroe released Simple Writer, a web app that restricted your writing to the top 1,000 most commons words in the English ... you want to use common language ...

One of its bitter triumphs is the ability to say ‘origin unknown.’” Here are 15 basic English words that have remained etymological mysteries. That outburst of anger called a tantrum first ...