Articles from February, 2012

A friend of mine recently alerted me to an odd type of "word." See if you can guess what the following mean:

•   l10n
•   i18n
•   d11n

...the "Sparkling, Swooning and Suffering Wordlessly" Vocabulary List, created from A.O. Scott's New York Times review of Best Picture Award winner The Artist. Learn this list and impress your friends with your erudite analysis of the film. Even if, like most people, you haven't seen it.

Click here to explore more fascinating and timely Vocabulary Lists you can learn.

Now that any Vocabulary List can be played as a spelling bee on Vocabulary.com, we thought we'd highlight a particularly good list to learn. Commonly Misspelled Words contains nearly 200 words that are known for being tricky, including twelfth, recommend, accommodate, license, and succeed.

We're particularly thrilled to note that this list was created by a site user. Thank you, Betz. And keep them coming, Vocabularians!