Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say “ 6-7 ” is “cooked” and should come to a massive full-stop heading into the new year. Those are among the ...

The earliest recorded use of the phrase Merry Christmas dates back to the 16th century. In 1534, an English Catholic bishop, John Fisher, wrote a letter to Thomas Cromwell wishing him a “mery ...

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Stuck on today's Wordle with 'IE' in the third and fourth positions? Here's a list of five-letter words that fit the bill, aiming to help you crack the puzzle more quickly.

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

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President Donald Trump has said he moved "a submarine or two" to the coast of Russia, but said the word "nuclear" can never be said. "I call it the N word. There are two N words, and you can't use ...

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his campaign that, if elected to a second term, he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours.” But since his Jan. 20 ...

There are multiple ways to type a Hyphen, En dash, and Em dash in Microsoft Word on a Windows 11/10 PC. In this post, we will cover the following methods in detail: Word’s built-in keyboard shortcuts ...

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