TODAY’S WORD — MEDIAN (MEE-dee-in: A value for which there is an equal number of values above and below.) Average mark 20 words Time limit 30 minutes Can you find 27 or more words in MEDIAN? The list ...

IN a rather frustrating development in the ongoing exchange of provocative rhetoric between the Chinese Embassy in Manila and some officials of our government, the embassy and Commodore Jay Tarriela, ...

I don’t remember when I first learned about single quotation marks, but I have a vague memory of assuming they were as useful as quotation marks, or close to it. Sometimes you quote someone. Sometimes ...

The columnist-musician Sean of the South (aka Sean Dietrich) lived in Tallahassee for “a hot minute,” as he put it. The folksy future humorist had moved into an apartment and was ready to study at ...

Weather forecasters at the National Weather Service, The Weather Channel and this very news organization had a name for the kind of storm that upended daily life for residents of the Northeast US this ...

Among those left with questions after an attendee with involuntary verbal tics yelled out the n-word during the British Academy Film Awards is the attendee himself. On Sunday, Feb. 22, John Davidson, ...

A BAFTA jury member has quit following a controversial on-air incident, which saw Tourette’s advocate John Davidson call out the “n-word” while actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with a term for “that last bit of dessert or food that people are too ...

Doing the work of an educator is tiring. Doing it right is even more tiring. A few months ago, I felt this degree of exhaustion before returning from winter break. It was the Friday before we were ...

The fallout over Tourette syndrome (TS) activist John Davidson’s outbursts at the Baftas on Sunday continued after Jamie Foxx and Wendell Pierce expressed their dismay at the incident. Davidson ...

Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo had the N-word shouted at them while presenting an award at the BAFTAs on Sunday. The “Sinners” stars were presenting the award for best visual effects to “Avatar: ...