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

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Memorizing all of the past Wordle answers is nearly impossible – after all, there have now been more than 1,400 of them. But knowing what's gone before is important, because Wordle answers don't ...

Wordle is a word puzzle that gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word. Originally created by software engineer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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