AJ Jacobs makes word puzzles, and sometimes turns his whole life into a puzzle. Read more
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Lemon Demon
AJ Jacobs makes word puzzles, and sometimes turns his whole life into a puzzle.
Good Grids
Exciting things have been happening with crossword puzzles in the US
100 Pages of Solvitude
Comedian John Finnemore spent six months solving a 100-page puzzle. Then he wrote his own.
Beeing
I went to the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee
Word Sport
At the Scripps National Spelling Bee it's a lot of work to make words into this word sport
Queer Arab Glossary
Designer and artist Marwan Kababour collects Arabic-language queer slang
199 ideas I hadn't made into podcasts yet
199 ideas that I have not yet made into podcasts (except for this one)
200th Episode Celebratory Quiz
A quiz about language where all the questions were set by beautiful brainy listeners
Tranquillusionist: Ex-Constellations
Constellations that got demoted into ex-constellations
Singlish
About Singlish, and the complicated language situation in Singapore
