Hasbro has announced it is collaborating with The New York Times to create a Wordle: The Party Game, the board game adaptation of the uber-popular mobile word game. The gameplay is the same, but it's ...

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Merrigong Theatre Company presents Verity Laughton’s smash-hit stage adaptation of Australian author Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, at the ...

The slang origins of “86” go back to codes used in diners and restaurants as staff shorthand in the 1930s or so, said Jesse ...

The word sycophant has fascinating roots that stem from the ancient Greek fig market. Greek has influenced modern language in ...

Donald Trump has had a fascination with words recently. First, it was groceries. On Monday, the president claimed he invented ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has found that large language models (LLMs)—the AI systems behind chatbots like ChatGPT—generalize ...

The Oxford English Dictionary tells us there are 171,476 words in current use in the English language. Plus, there are new words being invented every day and old words being ...