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Irish proverb of the day: 'Marry a woman from the mountain, and you...' Life lessons on collective family, community obligations, cultural baggage, interconnected growth, and why marriage is a package deal and comes with its own pros and consIrish proverb of the day teaches that marriage is never only about two people. The saying, "Marry a woman from the mountain, and you marry ...
Word of the Day: OneirophreniaWord of the day: Oneirophrenia is among the most intriguing words in the English language. Derived from ancient Greek and linked to psychol...
World cup games today: Who are playing on Day 1? Kick off time, team-wise match scheduleWorld cup today matches: FIFA World Cup 2026 is kicking off on Thursday.
FlixBus revives Poland’s ‘Highway to Hel’ 666 bus serviceCoach operator FlixBus brings back the famous Route 666 to Poland's Hel Peninsula for summer 2026. The route, connecting Krakow to the Balt...
Shrey Parikh wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in lightning roundThe Scripps National Spelling Bee crowned a new champion, with Shrey Parikh, a 14-year-old prodigy from Rancho Cucamonga, California, emerg...
Word of the Day: XenodochialWord of the Day: Xenodochial reminds us that openness toward strangers has been valued across civilizations for centuries. At a time when f...
Mother's Day Special: How AI, apps are empowering women to manage finances, improve health, build careerWomen are learning to keep pace with the ubiquitous apps and AI, shrugging off dependence on their kids for financial transactions, online ...
Is it 'omelette or omelet'? Pune tech entrepreneur's cheeky post has the internet laughing out loudA simple spelling correction of 'omelette' online sparked a viral conversation. The exchange celebrated Indian English, which blends influe...
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Images 2.0 with realistic visuals, improved text rendering, and moreOpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Images 2.0, a powerful AI image generator boasting enhanced accuracy and detail. This new version excels at ren...
Word of the Day: MaelstromMaelstrom is a word used to describe chaos or a powerful whirlpool. It can talk about a confusing situation with too many things happening ...
Word of the Day: HippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobiaHippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a popular long word that humorously refers to the fear of long words. Famous more for irony than cli...
Opinion: Mind your P'S & Q's, tomahtos-tomaytosWith the benefit of all the intervening years, and with exposure to many non-English speakers who have attained distinction in their chosen...
Will Indians speak American English eventually?Britain’s days of queening it over English in India may well be numbered.
With spellings & syntax all over the place, knowing nuances of English grammar is diminishingGrammar is becoming practically redundant now, as any examination would show.
Are Indians incapable of pronouncing multi-syllabic words?There is no reason to believe that all Indians cannot enunciate place names the way as they were originally intended.
Sanskrit to replace urdu on railway signboards in UttarakhandThe names of railway stations in Uttarakhand on platform signboards still appear in Urdu as most of them belong to the period when the stat...
Let's have an award for the worst-spelt road signageReading and deciphering the intended names and info on road signs across India make for an amusing pastime, as their English spellings and ...
Autocorrect 4 eva? Technology won't kill off spelling and grammarMitra floated the idea that teaching children correct spelling and grammar was “unnecessary” in 2013, since “my phone corrects my spelling”...
- ICANN allows India to register website addresses in seven regional languages
Once the Indian-language domain names start rolling out, Net users can register their website addresses in Indian scripts like 'dot bharat'.
- English medium: A Large Leap Forward
The blinding realisation that English is in — even if England is out of the Fifa World Cup — has also now struck the powers that run Delhi’...