The most incorrect plurals among Italians? Cherries, suitcases, rain and oranges probably, but even compound nouns give us a lot ...

Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning with TOI English Hack explains the real rule: it is not about letters, but ...

Abstract: Long and short vowels in Lhasa dialect is an important language phenomenon. In early studies, the long and short vowels are studied with long and short tones together as one kind of ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

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The problem description states these precedence rules: When the query exactly matches a word in the wordlist (case-sensitive), you should return the same word back. When the query matches a word up to ...

There’s an art and a science to picking a good starting word when you play Wordle. My trusty starter of ARISE has served me so well for years I still use it daily. Emily Long, who writes our daily ...

This repo houses the Go SDK for integrating with the Extism runtime. Install this library into your host Go applications to run Extism plugins. The primary concept in Extism is the plug-in. You can ...

If you spend enough time online, you're bound to come come across a sentence like this: "Yr brn cn rd wrds wtht vwls." It looks like nonsense at first glance, but after a moment, you probably read it ...

The human brain can make sense of sentences — even when the vowels are missing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "Ths sntnc s ...

Archival footage from the 1986 Constitutional Convention captures a wide range of Rhode Island accents at a time when they were common among all generations. Many of Rhode Island's present-day ...