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NPR's Juana Summers plays the puzzle with winner Jim Howe from Manlius, N.Y., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

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

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

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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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

Chat Specials

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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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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

Good

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If you’re feeling a bit bored and blah in your work life, you might find yourself dreaming of a career change or starting a side hustle. However, not everyone wants to do that or it’s not currently possible. Another route to feeling rejuvenated is to

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

The Christian Science Monitor

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When my children’s friends think something is really great, they’ll call it “sick.” Michael Jackson famously sang “Because I’m bad, I’m bad,” and meant not that he was naughty but that he was tough and cool. “It’s wicked tasty” is high praise around

Home & Decor

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We may not think much of the subject, but design affects every part of our lives. In fact, the better a design is, the more subtle it becomes and the less aware we are of the pivotal role it assumes. This is especially true in the realm of interior d

HOME New Zealand

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Ricky Booth, Intuitive Architects— “I don’t think this is a place you’d drive by and go, ‘Wow, look at that.’ We wanted to create something that didn’t unfold until you experienced it – that grew on you the longer you were there. After a while, you a

Digital Photographer

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1 Overuse of techniques Error: It can be tempting, as someone new to advanced compositional techniques, to try and work all of those that have been discussed into an image, creating shots with confusing intent. Solution: Study a scene and look for op

The Christian Science Monitor

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Ever since I took the SAT in high school, I have understood reticent to mean – as the test-prep site vocabulary.com explains – “not inclined to talk or provide information” or “reluctant to draw attention to yourself.” Reticent evokes 19th-century no

New Idea

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Teaching your kids life skills can feel like a full-time job. Just when you thought you were done having taught them how to apply sunscreen or safely cross the road, a ton of other stuff presents itself. One life skill I think we overlook more than

Futurity

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A new automated method makes communications more polite, researchers report. Specifically, the method takes nonpolite directives or requests—those that use either impolite or neutral language—and restructures them or adds words to make them more well

Dirt Action

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You may be incredibly skilled in your field, you may have years of experience, you may have listened to your coach and put in the hard yards physically — but if it all falls apart on game day, was it really worth it? It’s no secret that application i

NPR

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

Money Magazine

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I recently took a family holiday to the Sunshine Coast to take advantage of the last few warm days of the year. My teenage boys and I found ourselves standing alone on an unpatrolled beach, excited and full of anticipation. As we always do before we

Games World of Puzzles

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FIRST PRIZE $100 5 RUNNER-UP PRIZES: A ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION TO GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES This contest is similar to Three Little Lists, which appeared in April 2020. Once again we’ve made three lists, each containing 12 things that belong to a specific

NPR

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

NPR

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Public radio is a place where you can get the news you need right alongside stories that celebrate the entire human experience.

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

Mountain Biking UK

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Our technical-editor-in-chief, Rob Weaver, gets new products in as soon as they’re available and coordinates all the testing through our team of tech experts, who have unrivalled knowledge and experience. Every test starts with a detailed product che

Mountain Biking UK

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Our technical-editor-in-chief, Rob Weaver, gets new products in as soon as they’re available and coordinates all the testing through our team of tech experts, who have unrivalled knowledge and experience. Every test starts with a detailed product che

Games World of Puzzles

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To solve Quote Boxes, drop the letters from each vertical column—not necessarily in the order in which they appear—into the empty squares below them to spell a quotation reading from left to right, line by line. Words may continue from one line to th

Guardian Weekly

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The defenestration of Matt Hancock was only the latest event to attract renewed calls of “Tory sleaze”, first popular as a description of John Major’s 1990s government. In the 17th century, “sleasie” was used as shorthand for Silesia, a kind of cloth

Women's Health Australia

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“Rap what you feel.” Seems simple enough. But those words induce a stomach-churning fear in me. The woman egging me on is Lady Lykez, the rap artist-cum-confidence coach leading this empowerment-in-the-workplace workshop. “My name is Emily,” I quip,

NPR

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Listener David Kirkpatrick plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Adrian Florido.

Chicago Tribune

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While the year is still fresh, can we establish a few linguistic ground rules? Can we refrain from cluttering our emails and Twitter feeds and Slack channels and talk-show appearances and Netflix series with the same words and phrases that we reached

Space

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The exhibition designed by the 15th class of student reporters at SPACE (hereinafter student reporters) entitled ‘Unseen Architecture’ is on show at EAGONHAUS until Feb. 4. The exhibition was designed to allow the audience to experience the urban con