Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

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It’s official: “Six Seven” Just earned the title of Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year. But even as the word is officially added to the cultural lexicon, it has already been quietly removed ...

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