Learn about nouns and find out if the butler can locate Lady Lettuce's special spoon in time for breakfast. Then, put your knowledge to the test in a quiz! Mr Ree is the shopkeeper. The word ...

Our picturesque country of Costa Rica boasts a diversity of natural wonders, from lush rainforests to stunning beaches. This gives rise to the question – why do foreigners seem to take liberties with ...

“Tum, tum, tum dee dum, Baby’s beating on his drum.” That’s a line I repeat at least three times a day at the moment — from Page 6 of the Little Golden Books classic Baby Listens. And usually, charmed ...

For decades family arguments have raged furiously over whether words like Quzhou (a city in southern China, 27 points) and Zuma (as in the South African president, 15 points) are eligible. At least to ...

I woke yesterday morning to an e-mail from an editor at a London newspaper asking whether, as the author of a book about the world of competitive Scrabble, I had any thoughts on the news that "the ...

Sometimes, the answer is a proper noun, rather than a ‘dictionary word’. Reader/setter Chris Miller has been discussing this recently, especially anagrams of proper nouns that most anagram finders ...