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There’s a new, mysterious, and creepy pronunciation guide on YouTube

Is this another mystery, or just a guide to learning words?

On Mar 4, 2015 by Rae Votta

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The complete list of words that should actually be banned

This is the only way to save the English language.

On Jan 8, 2015 by Miles Klee

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This bizarre treatise on the nature of cereal has to be heard to be believed

This video might change the entire way you eat breakfast. But probably not.

On Jan 5, 2015 by Mike Fenn

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7 better choices for Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year

Culture? Nope, that's garbage. These are the most important words of 2014.

On Dec 16, 2014 by Miles Klee

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This new webseries is for the depressed neurotic in all of us

Even the best of us sometimes find ourselves lost for words.

On Dec 4, 2014 by Tom Harrington

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‘Vape’ is your Oxford Dictionaries Word of 2014

But it's been around longer than you think.

On Nov 18, 2014 by Miles Klee

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Oxford Dictionaries adds ‘subtweet,’ ‘neckbeard,’ ‘catfish,’ and more

ICYMI.

On Aug 14, 2014 by Miles Klee

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The Beyoncé tour of Urban Dictionary

Her dominance over our vocabularies is really above and beyon… cé.

On Jun 11, 2014 by Molly McHugh

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Jimmy Fallon and Ricky Gervais are terrible at this word game

In this game of words, nobody wins.

On Jun 3, 2014 by Michelle Jaworski

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You’ll never guess which rapper has the largest vocabulary

Now you can see how Eminem, the Wu-Tang Clan, and Kanye West stack up against Shakespeare. 

On May 4, 2014 by Austin Powell

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This Chrome extension keeps online browsing jargon-free

Layman's terms all day every day.  

On Apr 29, 2014 by Kate Knibbs

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The AP Stylebook’s latest change is wrong, but that’s never mattered less

Over? More than? There's more than meets the eye to the latest linguistic meltdown.

On Mar 20, 2014 by Miles Klee

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Here are some hilarious curse words banned from the Web in Mongolia

These are not words that people use in real life. 

On Mar 20, 2014 by EJ Dickson

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Let’s try to get dirty with Android’s autocomplete

Google Keyboard's censorship can't help but be odd and arbitrary.

On Dec 3, 2013 by Miles Klee

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‘Selfie’ beats out ‘twerk’ and ‘Bitcoin’ for Word of the Year

Selfies ruled everything around us this year.

On Nov 18, 2013 by Audra Schroeder