When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Rhyme Genie, a new rhyming dictionary for your Mac or PC, is a truly tailored experience. In the program, there are over 300,000 entries exceeding 170,000 phrases, 35,000 proper nouns and 48,000 ...

As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...

Want to convince someone of something? Make up a rhyme. They may think it’s cutesy, but they’ll still believe it more readily than if it were stated plainly. At least until they are asked to think ...

A new visualization shows how Lin-Manuel Miranda’s prose was influenced by everyone from Lauryn Hill to Gilbert & Sullivan. The software itself actually isn’t that complicated, at least the way the ...

Whether you're at the supermarket, the park or home, it is always a good time to practise rhyming words. Recognising and producing rhymes is a key skill, which will help unlock important language and ...

Forward reader Susan Hessel writes: “I am reading a book called ‘The Report,’ a novel based on an incident in a London bomb shelter in 1943. In the book, Jews, particularly Jewish refugees, are ...

Have you heard? Barry Crocker’s having a … well, Barry Crocker (“shocker”) of a time with those Reg Grundies (“undies”) people. Karens everywhere can relate – they know it’s Jeffed up when your Danned ...