Today's NYT Strands for Nov. 14: That Weird Answer Explained ... Find three hint words (they must have at least four letters each) and the game will reward you by showing you a theme word.

LASSITER: Phonetics, on the other hand, focuses on how sounds are made, and how they are perceived by others. DALOLA: Phonetics is really a detail game. There’s basically two main branches: there’s ...

Then there’s the other weird thing the former president does with capitalization, where he caps the beginning of words for seemingly no good reason. This post-debate missive from his Truth ...

Some words go abstract. We say “It’s none of your business” as a single chunk and think nothing of it, but it’s an odd expression. It doesn’t refer to a business in the dictionary sense.