Whimsically weird words make conversations even more interesting and they certainly stump the whippersnappers of this world. You may have heard of the silly terms and phrases like gobbledygook ...

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 ...

According to Preply, these are the Top 10 misunderstood phrases across the U.S. as of April 2024, from No. 10 to the No. 1 hardest phrase to decipher in America:. 10. "Blucifer" from Colorado ...

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.

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.