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Vidit Bhargava, developer of the award-winning dictionary app LookUp, wrote on his blog about the way he hand-makes each piece of artwork that accompanies the app’s Word of the Day. While revealing ...
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Sarah A. Boardman says that in the six years since she painted the portrait, she has 'received overwhelmingly positive ...
President Trump has repeatedly called tariffs "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." NPR's Word of the Week explores how they got their name.
Malaysia’s colourful English stepped into the global linguistic spotlight after words like “alamak” and “tapau” found a home ...
Kaminari hopes audiences will come out of their comfort zones by performing Japanese a cappella music during their 10th ...
This is the art that's in my studio. This is the sort of iconography ... In order to keep a rhyme scheme, you have a certain amount of syllables, or a flow. If a word in English has two syllables but ...
AI-created Ghibli-style pictures are the latest trend that has been sweeping social media, with individuals sharing multiple ...
This March, gigil was added to the Oxford English Dictionary as the newest Filipino word in the Philippine English category.
I’m hoping people like it. For the people who are watching, what words of advice can you give someone who wants to get into the world of art? First, I would say it is just like any other field.
Like most writers’ handwritten drafts, the papers of Alfred Tennyson—the 19th-century English poet known for nuggets such as, “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”—are ...
It was picked up from the Scots and northeast English word ‘crack’, meaning loud gossip, banter or bragging. Craic then acquired its characteristic Irish spelling, and it has kept this since ...