Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...

Wordle is a word puzzle that gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word. Originally created by software engineer Josh Wardle and released to the public in 2021, the puzzle was acquired by ...

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The Oxford English Dictionary has included the word "lah into its lexicon, a significant nod to the uniqueness of Malaysian English. According to the OED, this colloquial particle is used as an ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky ...

I was grateful to John Lane, of East Falmouth, for coining tele-font-ics and, in particular, for explaining what led him to ...

For 12 long days we were assailed with an unfamiliar and ugly term, which spread faster than COVID's Omicron strain. As the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KUER listener Elisabeth Larsen and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Researchers from tracking nearly 500 U.K. adults found that low-quality friendships predicted higher risks of heart attack and premature death over eight years. Prolonged exposure to negative social ...

If you're looking to get away from Microsoft Word, and Microsoft, or if you're just looking to support a free and open-source ...