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

TIME

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Online videoconferencing can make it easy to connect with people all over the world—provided, of course, that everyone speaks the same language. Kudo Marketplace, a scheduling tool tied to a Zoom-like platform, takes care of that. The system, launche

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

Time Magazine International Edition

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Online videoconferencing can make it easy to connect with people all over the world—provided, of course, that everyone speaks the same language. Kudo Marketplace, a scheduling tool tied to a Zoom-like platform, takes care of that. The system, launche

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

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

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

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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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

Australian Geographic

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Awake: If you are aware of what’s really going on, as opposed to what appears to be going on, you may still say, “I’m awake to what you’re up to.” Th is usage seems to have grown out of Vaux’s original definition: “To be awake to any scheme, deceptio

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

Rhythm

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“My dearest desire was to play like Max Roach, or to play like Art Blakey, and because of that I learned what the drums can do and what they have done in the past. It’s like learning a vocabulary. If you want to learn how to speak French the way you

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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In Australia, almost 4 million people have some form of hearing loss. This continues to grow as our population ages. 84% of Australians are uncertain of where to turn to for support if their child is born with or develops hearing loss. 94% of Au

NPR

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

Who Do You Think You Are?

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w thegenealogyshowlive.com THE Genealogy Show held its first event in 2019 and they have continued on a regular basis ever since, although they have migrated online. This event features a packed schedule, with three days of talks on topics as varied

NPR

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

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.

NPR

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

The Christian Science Monitor

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Is ice cream widely or wildly popular? Does the price of oil fluctuate wildly or widely? These two words are often used interchangeably – can they actually be synonyms?  Merriam-Webster defines widely as “over or through a wide area,” “to a great ext

Little Sparkles Magazine

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Q 1: Kate’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___?? Q 2: If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?? Q 3: There ‘ s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?? Q 4: Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters

New Zealand Listener

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he poor old English language, it really isn’t what it used to be. According to a recent survey in Britain – or “Pomgolia”, as sports journalist Phil Gifford’s Loosehead Len used to call it – it seems such wonderfully useful idiomatic phrases as “read

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

Who Do You Think You Are?

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BELLIS The anglicised form of the Welsh ap Elisedd meaning ‘son of Elisedd’ can be found in Flintshire and Cheshire. CHALONER This name derives from the Old French word for a boatman. EDWARDS This patronymic is found across Wales, but is most common

New Zealand Listener

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David Eggleton, “the mad Kiwi ranter”, is New Zealand’s Poet Laureate. It’s a career arc a bit like Tim Shadbolt’s, who went from author of Bullshit & Jellybeans to mayor of Invercargill. On the way, Eggleton has won every literary award it’s possibl

Who Do You Think You Are?

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The document gives Agnes’ date of birth and that of her baptism, which took place when she was exactly a month old. Only the father’s surname is given, and it’s incorrectly spelled “Edmundsen”. This kind of phonetic misspelling often occurred in the

Country Life

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1) The mistral wind occurs on which continent? 2) What word can refer to both a card game and part of the nose? 3) In which county is the Fossdyke Canal? 4) In which literary work does the Wife of Bath appear? 5) In which year did the first London Ma

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

Australian Geographic

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VERSING AUSTRALIAN SPORTING journalism appears to have birthed the word “versing”. It turns up on programs where blokes named Jacko and Cruncher preview weekend sport. They seem to have trouble referring to the Sharks versus the Bears because “versus