Overview:  Today’s NYT Wordle brings a crisp five-letter verb that tests both vocabulary and reasoning skills. Players must ...

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New brain imaging research reveals that by 10 months old, infants are already beginning to understand verbs, before they even say their first words.In ...

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The French do have a common “pissing-related expression,” Tranel explained in an email. The saying, ‘c’est comme pisser dans un violon,’ which translates to ‘it’s like pissing in a violin,’ “is used ...

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Flummox meaning: The word flummox means to greatly confuse or bewilder someone. Its origins remain a mystery to linguists. Charles Dickens first used it in the 1830s. It became common in British and ...

Learning a new language is hard enough at the best of times, but now you have to worry about accidentally offending local people by misusing a Spanish term.

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The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.