Everyone keeps telling you that you should be a writer and that you’re an ace at literature. It gets to your head. You start believing your own hype. And that’s the moment that somebody tells you that ...

Language is a beautiful, but complicated thing. A word can start out one way in one place, but by the time it gets spread across the world, it's become an entirely different thing. In other words, you ...

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Nate joined AP in 2019. He enjoys learning and writing about new tech while being slowly covered in cat hair. How do you pronounce quokka? Pronunciation can be difficult to perfect, especially with a ...

When Steve Pitts was first asked to pronounce the words at a Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Regional Spelling Bee, he said his initial response to A-J marketing director Julia Childs was, “No, you’ve got ...

Here's a little food for thought: You, yes, you, the foodie par excellence who embraced gnocchi long before the masses, might not be quite as in-the-know as you think. Your taste buds are on point, ...

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