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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 ...
The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.
President Donald Trump claimed to invent a new word while speaking to reporters on Monday, May 19. The Merriam-Webster ...
Fun fact, “brah” — another dialect of bruh — is not in the dictionary. Yet. But to my mother’s dismay, ain’t is in the ...
The Patriot Ledger is polling readers on whether a lobster roll is a sandwich. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a sandwich as two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in ...
Comparative literature student Frank Cahill competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee as an eighth grader. This year, on ...
Ahead, you’ll learn why he had it out for the u in color, and why the word is spelled differently in British and American ...
Open any major dictionary, digital or physical, turn to any irregular verb, and the first thing you see after the entry word ...
A former FBI director posted a picture on Instagram of shells in the shape of "8647," which has the Trump administration ...
Former FBI director James Comey says that he's still a bit bewildered over how a seemingly innocent Instagram shot of shells ...
What does '86' mean? According to the dictionary site Merriam-Webster, “86” means to "to throw out,” or “get rid of,” and derives from a 1930s slang term for “sold out.” USA Today sa ...