I have the feeling brain rot wasn’t on your radar. Mine either, until I read that the swells who run the Oxford English Dictionary have chosen it as their word of the year for 2024. I think we can all ...
Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English ...
The language of the upper classes is known by language experts as URP, upper received pronunciation. According to Lord Onslow, the clipped phrases and lengthened vowels are perfectly natural, but he ...
May I have a word with you, please? Actually, two words. Brain rot. You just never know what kind of surprise awaits you when ...
A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish has won the board game’s Spanish-language world ...
A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn't speak, has won the board ...
What do music and architecture have in common? Both art forms affect our mood, require compositional artistry, and demand a ...
Benjamín Olaizola, who came second to New Zealander Nigel Richards, called his opponent a “gifted guy” with “very particular abilities" ...
A renowned speller known as the "Tiger Woods of Scrabble" took the top spot at the Spanish World Scrabble Championships in ...
Spain’s new Scrabble champion doesn’t speak Spanish - Nigel Richards couldn’t talk to his opponents in their language ...