It may be of some interest to your readers to note that the Oxford Dictionary people have selected as the Word of the Year “brain rot,” believed to imply a ...

An easy trick to improve your vocabulary with Scrabble is to play with a dictionary at hand. Look up any new or unfamiliar ...

Editor: The short answer is yes. But, first we need to accept that we have also become an oligarchy by its very dictionary ...

Our puzzle editors and Wordplay columnists share their favorite new entries to the New York Times Crossword this year.

Analysis: from útluighe to bánbiad, the rediscovered words demonstrate the quirky and colourful language of medieval Irish.

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The New York Times has long been a bastion for crossword puzzles and word games, and in recent years, it has expanded its ...

The 2025 international conference on the f-word (24-26 September 2025) is now open for submissions. It aims at exploring the ...

Nebraskans are increasingly using their car's license plates to make a statement. New applications for custom message plates ...

In January 2022, Wardle sold Wordle to The New York Times for an undisclosed seven-figure sum, though the game remained free to play. Speaking to Newsweek, Erhan Aslan, a linguistics expert who ...

The year’s done, the data is in, we’ve Wrapped, unboxed and unpacked what we could. Were you really paying attention to all ...

For a global sensation, Wordle has remarkably humble origins; it was first invented during coronavirus lockdown by New York-based software developer Josh Wardle, who simply wanted a game "for me and ...