This debut novel is a mystery in which a dictionary editor at Oxford turns to word-sleuthing in order to unravel a family ...

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Here are correct pronunciations of Oregon, Willamette, Champoeg, Chemeketa, Deschutes, Grand Ronde, Idanha, Lebanon, Malheur, ...

So in 2026, instead of trying to define what a podcast is, I think we need to stop using the word altogether. “Podcast” is ...

Word-salad it may seem, this phrase is actually the most important sentence of the year. At least, that’s what the Western world’s various English dictionaries would have us believe; as each ...

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

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Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

Abstract: The objective of audio inpainting is to fill a gap in an audio signal. This is ideally done by reconstructing the original signal or, at least, by inferring a meaningful surrogate signal. We ...

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