NPR

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On-air challenge: Every answer is a word, name, or phrase in which the only consonants are L and T — repeated as often as necessary. All the other letters are vowels. Example: Add up --> TOTAL1. Opposite of big2. Coffee made with hot steamed milk3. N

You South Africa

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Rooster, iqhude, umqhagi, haan – that’s just a sample of the words in our great new magazine YOU Learn 4 Languages. It’s a wonderful tool for learning new words. Little kids can learn what objects are in their mother tongues, while older kids (and cu

The Christian Science Monitor

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Today you can “friend” people with the touch of a key on Facebook. But etymologically speaking, “friendship” is much more intense.

The Christian Science Monitor

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I’m raring to go. Or am I rearing to go instead? Which one is correct? This is a nerve-racking question, or perhaps a nerve-wracking one.

Woman's Day

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When lockdown started a few months ago, my friend Damien and I decided we’d use the time wisely and learn a new language. Almost three months later, and as restrictions lift, we’re far from bilingual, and while Damien is able to string some sentences

POPSUGAR

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If you're caught in the tortuous cycle of snapping at your kids and then feeling guilty for the way you've spoken to them, Rose & Rex's Education Director Lauren Vien, M. Ed. can sympathize. As a mom with over a decade of experience teaching in priva

NPR

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Listener Gabrielle Sweets plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

The Paris Review

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In our eight-part series Life Sentence, the literary critic Jeff Dolven takes apart and puts back together one beloved or bedeviling sentence. The artist Tom Toro illustrates each sentence Dolven chooses. ©Tom Toro There are so many ways to pin a sen

Nautilus

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Many of us have been taught that pronouncing vowels indistinctly and dropping consonants are symptoms of slovenly speech, if not outright disregard for the English language. The Irish playwright St. John Ervine viewed such habits as evidence that som

Creative Nonfiction

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WINNER! Best Essay Prize M.G. LEIBOWITZ lives in New York, New York. Her poetry has recently appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Foundry, and The Journal. She is the recipient of CALYX Journal’s 2016 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Pri

The Guardian

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Do you know how to say apropos? What about awry? We want to know which words you’ve mispronounced – and how you found out your mistake

The Christian Science Monitor

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English has so many creative ways to proclaim that something is ‘nonsense.’ Part 2 of a series on the nuts and bolts of humorous words.

NPR

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NPR's Susan Davis plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WBUR listener Jared Voss of Medford, Mass.

Traces

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The Australian National Dictionary defines ‘dinkum’ as referring to work or ‘a due share of the work’. While the word is often thought to be Australian, it is recorded as having an English origin and can be found within the Lincolnshire dialect. ‘Fai

Games World of Puzzles

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If you remove all the vowels from your first name and then add new vowels anywhere among the remaining consonants, can you get a new word? How about your last name? Well, we know 12 famous people who can do this vowel play with each of their names, a

Artichoke

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The relationship between client and designer can make or break a project. A successful working partnership is founded on trust, communication and respect – and it is these characteristics that often lead to the best work. As designers, it is your res

NPR

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Listener Name Rachel Mazor plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Chat Passion

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You might think you’ve heard your fair share of unusual pet names, but how many of these terms of affection from around the world are you familiar with? If you called someone this in the UK, you might not get the reaction you were hoping for. But i

NPR

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In this week's challenge, each clue is a thing that belongs to two categories. Name something that's in both.

Chat

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Schizophasia is the term for disordered speech patterns, a phenomenon which gets its colloquial name from what food dish? The number next to the clue tells you which line the answer is in. There may be two across answers in one line. Down words fill

The Paris Review

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We’re away until January 6, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2019. Enjoy your holiday! So. We cuss. Some of us cuss by saying mercy me or suffering succotash. I like to say shooty-pooty, which I learned from a nice Baltimore boy

NPR

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On-air Challenge: Today's puzzle is all about "me." Specifically, every answer is a word or name in which the accented syllable "me," in any spelling, appears somewhere inside it. Example: Serving to fix or correct things --> REMEDIAL 1. Person who t

MEGA

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Indianapolis Monthly

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Parla Italiano? You will after these classes taught by Indy Italian. Cristiana Thielmann leads private lessons with an emphasis on pronunciation. Cost: $200 for six 90-minute virtual classes Dates: Year-round Where: 317-581-1340, facebook.com/indyita

Literary Hub

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The bad reputation of New York City speech is long-established and widely held. Polls have shown it to be the second most disliked accent in the country, just behind that of the American South. A 2011 poll that asked Americans to judge whether people

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Join classes and nurture curiosity with one or two new hobbies each year – dance, take up a foreign language or learn how to invest. Before you feel let down, explain your expectations. Don’t be afraid to delegate.

Guernica Magazine

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Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of the roughly 130 endangered Native languages in the United States. This documentary follows her efforts to keep her mother tongue alive. The post SIMA Docs: Marie’s Dictionary appeared firs

NPR

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Listener Rick Tett plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Writing Magazine

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There’s a good chance you’ve come across people labelled as ‘having an attitude problem’. You may even have been described as that person yourself. Irritated by the slightest thing, like the toothpaste tube being squeezed from its mid-section rather

Real Living Australia

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Editor Elle Lovelock Creative director Sandy Dao Art director Andrea Healy Market assistant Lisa Burden Image retoucher Matus Kundrat Senior features editor Lindyl Crabb Copy editor Laura Barry Copy/production editor Tamarah Pienaar Sophie Wilson Act