Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Michael Erard about his newest e-book, The Language Beat: Essays and Reporting on Language and Life. AI Indigenous correspondents

After 60 years, the series gives families a chance to pass down not only shared language but values, too.

Jeff Chen and Stephan Prock want to help you up your game.

The New York Times Spelling Bee has been my morning-coffee activity for some of those years, and since November 2020 I've been jokingly tweeting the British English words that it hasn't accepted. These go in a thread of posts that always start: