The brainchild of Slate’s Dan Kois, built by a team of in-house developers and designers, Pears is a word game for people who know their way around a dictionary and the internet. If a word is part of ...

The Democratic leader’s speech at CrescentCare was part of a national tour aimed at elevating health care as a defining issue ...

Their circumlocutions were as entrancing as their ability to find the most precisely ironic words for difficult-to-name realities ... received more commissions than any other playwright in SCR’s ...

You sound like ChatGPT AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

When Midcentury New York Spoke, This Sound Archivist Listened—and Recorded Every Word Armed with a tape recorder and open ears, Tony Schwartz turned everyday noise into lasting art. Now, his ...

Researchers in Antarctica discover mysterious radio waves from beneath the ice, challenging scientific understanding as these signals should be undetectable through rock ...

150 Big Words That Will Make You Sound Fancy and Smart—and What They Mean originally appeared on Parade. By age 20, the average American will have learned around 42,000 words.

The Michigan accent, part of the Inland North accent, is part of American English. Here are how some words sound in the accent.

Sounds Struggling to Stay Words Artist Patricia Vázquez Gómez pairs video and audio in ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word), an installation about diaspora and the loss of language.

Brightbill: Mama. Rosin: This all created an interesting challenge for the movie’s sound-design team, which is: What should this robot sound like? And what should it sound like if it has a soul?

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