Were you baffled when Don Cheadle’s British character in Ocean’s Eleven warned that they would be “in barney” if they didn’t pull off the job in Reno? Perplexed by all the talk of “custard” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Monday, OpenAI announced a new model in the GPT-3 family of AI-powered large language models, text-davinci-003, that reportedly improves on its predecessors by handling more complex instructions ...

Whether at sea or in port, in peacetime or at war, every moment of a Navy ship’s existence is tracked. The deck log, prepared by the officer of the deck, chronicles where the ship has been, what has ...

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The emcee, singer, and self-proclaimed “swamp princess” showcased hip-hop elements like storytelling, rhyming, and scratching ...