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The Swedish language also contributes two words on the UK list: smokeless tobacco Snus, pronounced (SNOOZ), and flygskam, the name of a movement that aims to discourage people from flying that ...
December 15, 2024 at 12:45 AM. Move over, Wordle and Connections—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another ...
The most played Wordle puzzle in 2024 was on April 23. That word was "rover." A total of 5.6 million streaks ended on Oct. 15, with "corer." Wordle continues to be an immensely popular game.
December 12 – Indian chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju defeats former world champion Ding Liren in the 2024 World Chess Championship, breaking the previous age record of 22 set by Garry Kasparov by becoming champion at 18 years, 195 days old. [269] December 14. 2024 Georgian presidential election: Mikheil Kavelashvili of People's Power is ...
The name Tết is a shortening of Tết Nguyên Đán, literally written as tết (meaning festivals; only used in festival names) and nguyên đán which means the first day of the year. Both words come from Sino-Vietnamese respectively, 節 (SV: tiết) and 元旦. The word for festival is usually lễ hội, a Sino-Vietnamese word, 禮會. [13]
Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]
Nicole Kidman is one of the few big-time movie stars who can still surprise us. In Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, she plays Romy, a top executive at an Amazon-type company, who has everything she ...
BI's music reporter ranked the 20 best songs of 2024. Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Kendrick Lamar, and Raye round out the top five. Listen to the complete ranking on Business Insider's ...