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

The Atlantic

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As soon as Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy, people noted a few of his linguistic quirks, such as the extended, supervowel pronunciation of huge and the references to himself in the third person. But beyond those, the version of Engl

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NPR's Eyder Peralta plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and this week's winner Teri Fenner from San Diego, Calif.

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with winner Jim Frost of Albuquerque, New Mexico and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Writing Magazine

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Emily Foster-Tomkinson has wanted to be an author since she was nine years old. In 2016 she graduated with a degree in Creative Writing from Kingston University and has been submitting to agents and publishers ever since. It started like most unexpec

Ink Pellet

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The origins of words are endlessly fascinating. I had no idea that “milliner” is a word-from-place like “cashmere” (from Kashmir) and “paisley” (from… well… Paisley). The original milliners were sellers of fancy goods from Milan. Or take this: in the

Games World of Puzzles

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Here’s a test of your word “marksmanship.” The answer to each of the 20 questions in the puzzle is one of the words in the bull’s-eye target. Each answer scores a “hit,” which you may cross off in the target since no answer word is used more than onc

Games World of Puzzles

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From the beginning of the game until the end, the primary goal on each turn is to score points. And while there are many ways to do this, none is so frequently lucrative as the “bingo,” the play that uses all seven of your tiles, meriting a 50-point

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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.

Games World of Puzzles

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In this puzzle, all of the answers are the first (or last) halves of a word or phrase made up of two identical syllables or words. For example, “Sweet treat” would be BONBON, so you would enter BON in the grid. Proper nouns are allowed. Once you dete

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

The Atlantic

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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This week, the Social Security Administration released 2014’s ten most popular baby names in the U.S. The big news is tha

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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays the puzzle with New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz and KUT listener Cory Sureck of Austin, Texas.

Forbes Africa

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HAVE YOU NOTICED? AS LOGOPHILES WILL TELL you, the last two years have thrown up dozens of new words that have now gained currency and earned place in the dictionaries of the world. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has now officially included ‘hy

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.

New Zealand Listener

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Can we, as a nation, forget – even briefly – our obsession with rugby, Covid, cricket and rocket launches and applaud The Gulf? Not Lydia Ko, that is, but the terrific New Zealand drama series that ended its second series on Three on April 19. May th

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

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

Chat

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The subtitle of which novel by Samuel Richardson is Virtue Rewarded? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded squares to find the prize answer. WIN £1,000 Puzzle 10 Your answer: To

Literary Hub

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I drove to the University of Texas today with a fresh notebook and that first-day-of-school smile tugging at my lips. I’ve always been a nerd like that. I just turned 38, but I wasn’t on campus to begin a graduate program, or teach a class. I was the

Games World of Puzzles

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Below are seven messages—pithy sayings, fascinating facts, and a cartoon gag—that have been translated into simple cipher alphabets. Letter substitutions remain constant throughout any one cipher, but change from one cipher to the next; the level of

The Paris Review

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Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Re

Literary Hub

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When asked in his Paris Review interview what he looks for in the poems he reads by younger poets, Charles Wright answered: . . .[L]anguage that has a life of its own, seriousness of subject matter beyond the momentary gasp and glitter, a willingness

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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with WCBE listener Todd LaPlace of Dublin, Ohio.

The Atlantic

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Sign up for Caleb’s newsletter here. The first things that could “go off” were weapons. Starting in the 16th century, to go off meant to explode in a decisive spurt of energy. Even as the more literal meaning of “to depart physically, to wander” foll

Woman NZ

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Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Work out which number stands for which letter to complete the crossword. We’ve given you two letters to start. All words are from a dictionary and no proper nouns are used. All letters of the

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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How did English end up such a weird soup of spellings and pronunciations, alongside its giant vocabulary and regular grammatical skirmishes? First, we must lay blame with the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings and the Norman French, who all invade

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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with David Lillie of Buffalo, New York.

NPR

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NPR's Eyder Peralta plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WUNC listener Aaron Jones of Cary, North Carolina.

New Zealand Listener

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How did English end up such a weird soup of spellings and pronunciations, alongside its giant vocabulary and regular grammatical skirmishes? First, we must lay blame with the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings and the Norman French, who all invade