A word a day adds up to 350+ a year
Small, steady vocabulary habits beat cramming: learn one useful word daily and the gains quietly compound.
Today's briefing: a few timeless things worth knowing about words, language, AI, and puzzles. (Archive edition.)
Small, steady vocabulary habits beat cramming: learn one useful word daily and the gains quietly compound.
An LLM is trained on enormous amounts of text so it can predict and generate human-like language -- the engine behind today's chatbots.
'Level,' 'racecar,' and 'A man, a plan, a canal: Panama' all read identically forwards and backwards.
Master one root like 'port' (to carry) and you unlock import, export, portable, transport, and many more.
The earliest jigsaws, cut from maps in the 1760s, were made to teach geography to children.
The short word 'set' has hundreds of distinct senses, long cited as one of the most-defined words in English.