Columnist Joan Barron writes, “With the new year we have new words to ponder, like 'sportocrat,' and 'fleek.' The German word 'Backpfeitfengesicht' ...

ONE day in 1826, chemist John Walker was in his home in Cleveland Row on the Quayside facing the River Tees in Stockton, tending to the fire.

The measure comes as state officials have warned Illinois may face energy shortages but Republicans warn massive battery installations called for in the bill would be partly backed by a surcharge on ...

Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1661, and this Monday challenge serves up a straightforward noun with common letters but a double consonant that could trip up pattern recognition..

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (also known as cmudict) is a public domain pronouncing dictionary created by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It defines a mapping from English words to their North ...