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Here’s how to download Wordle and play it for free forever – maybe?

Here’s how to download Wordle and play it for free forever – maybe?

Just in case the New York Times decides to get any ideas about charging. Fans worried that Wordle, the popular word game you’ve no doubt seen on social media, might disappear behind a paywall after its recent buy-out can rest easy. A simple download hack means it shouldn’t be going anywhere. The internet has been […]

4 years ago

13 other words that could have been the 2016 word of the year

13 other words that could have been the 2016 word of the year

“Post-truth” has been declared the word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, because it’s 2016 and of course it has. If there are two things you could say have defined 2016, it’s all your favourite celebrities being killed off, and objective facts becoming less important than people talking utter rubbish that appeals to the emotions. […]

10 years ago

These are the world’s least favourite words

These are the world’s least favourite words

What’s your least favourite word? The Oxford English Dictionary have opened the discussion up to the public and are inviting internet users to submit their least favourite word in a massive worldwide online poll. So far, there have been only 20 submissions from Ireland – rendering a top five of “Racist”, “Trump”, “Whilst”, “Nice” and […]

10 years ago

The word of the year is an emoji. No, really.

The word of the year is an emoji. No, really.

Definitions of words are forever changing, but we didn’t realise that also applied to the word ‘word’. Instead of ‘a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation’ (yes, we looked up the definition of the word ‘word’), the ‘written representation’ part has been stretched to its limits with the […]

11 years ago

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