Do you find yourself mishearing lyrics? I do all the time. I recently learned the word for this phenomenon—mondegreen—and how ...

Doesn’t it make sense for an institution as wealthy and powerful as Harvard to accept the responsibility of speaking out broadly for the truth, and perhaps even for justice?

The administration’s attack on the AP, along with efforts to rewrite history and reframe reality, only reaffirms the maxim ...

A tweet celebrating Indian English words has gone viral, highlighting terms like 'timepass' and 'prepone' that uniquely ...

“Tubular” was another slang term that came from surf culture. It originally described the shape of a wave, but it eventually ...

Where to begin? Well, if we start with the title of the puzzle, there’s your answer: “Square to Begin.” I admit that I first ...

We've all experienced it: you're in the middle of a conversation, searching for a word, a name, or a title, and… nothing. You ...

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Experts say play is an important way for kids to process the fires and their impact — especially for children too young to necessarily put how they're feeling into words. "We use our words ...

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better - and if you fail to guess it at all, you'll break your streak.

“It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red ... and wordplay (“Such good pun we’re having,” riffs a woman in her ...