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These clever pangrams will have you cracking up—and will probably inspire you to come up with your own! What is a pangram? A ...
I like to play with other people’s words. Most of those words are now in the public domain, so everybody else’s words are also yours and mine. And R.W. Emerson lectures us that every word was once ...
Clark ends his piece with a chant: “A page a day equals a book a year.” And sure, if you squint, stay off social media, and ...
A Russian peasant With this alternate spelling of muzhiks, Jesse Inman earned the record of the highest-scoring opening ...
Lament, assonance, terra cotta. These are just a few of the 4.6 million words learners mastered in Vocabulary.com's Spring 2025 Vocabulary Bowl, the world's largest academic contest. But it's not just ...
By allowing myself to use only my eyes, to quiet my brain, and to observe, I discovered the corners of Duke that often go ...