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If you’re looking for hints and answers for Sunday, January 25, 2026 with the theme “The straight and narrow,” read on.

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Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

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“Vocabulism” is a Salon series about how the internet is killing the English language, one word at a time. The Internet has a long and well-established history of sapping the meaning from ...

Clinical words and phrases often work their way into doctors’ everyday language, sometimes without them realising. Nikki Nabavi reports Doctors are known for our use of jargon, acronyms, and myriad ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – An effort to eliminate outdated and offensive language referring to people with disabilities from Massachusetts state laws cleared the House on Wednesday, setting the stage for the ...