Sam Corbin
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🏁 crossword column for
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✍️ humor for NYer 📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
idea: right at midnight tonight we all solve a captcha by identifying every photo that contains a bus, so we can enter 2026 AI-free
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picked up my phone while writing a column just to ask everyone to take a moment to appreciate the word “pledge.” we went crazy with that one
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say what you will about nye in times square, it's one of our last remaining bits of a true monoculture
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unfortunately all words ending in B sound to me like words ending in M but said with a head cold
5 days ago
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we’ve domesticated wild wolves into dogs, big cats into lap cats- doesn’t it seem like we should have some kind of house elephant by now
5 days ago
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me, seeking diaries of famous british naval men: can I get a cook? librarian: is pepys ok?
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Paul Fairie
13 days ago
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
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Lynne Murphy
3 months ago
Oh my goodness, it gets earlier every year. The Word of the Year thread starts here with the 2025 German Youth WotY: das crazy
uk.news.yahoo.com/das-crazy-vo...
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'Das crazy' has been voted German Youth Word of the Year 2025
Every year, Germany’s youth select their annual "Youth Word of the Year", which is voted for by youngsters around the country.View on euronews
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/das-crazy-voted-german-youth-073627693.html
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Kinohi Nishikawa
13 days ago
Wisdom from
@samcorbin.bsky.social
of
@nytgames.bsky.social
: on the nourishing brain power of solving puzzles through epiphanies, and why AI diminishes our paths toward having them.
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had a dream about a “travel-sized legal defense kit,” and I can’t remember its contents but presumably they included a tiny attorney
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Chris Kohler
16 days ago
oh my god
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y’ever send an email so good you want to read it to other people
17 days ago
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Deb Amlen
18 days ago
What an incredible send-off! My deepest love to the
#NYTGames
desk and flex desk for making me feel so valued. 🩵
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cmon, stress cannot be both a symptom and cause of every illness. you guys have to pick one
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Kirby Conrod
20 days ago
did you know: the American Dialect Society is the oldest "word of the year" event in the States, and the words are chosen by several hundred linguists who get raucous in a big meeting room in January. you can submit nominations for us to consider! great activity for classrooms!
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Submit 2025 Words-of-the-Year Nominations
The American Dialect Society’s popular 2025 words-of-the-year vote will be held during the society’s 2026 annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nominations will be taken Thursday, January 8, 2026…
https://americandialect.org/submit-2025-woty-noms/
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CHOAM Nomsky
20 days ago
No one’s rich like Gaston That’s the pitch for “Gaston” No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston He’s a circle that begs to be squared It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit Yes his backstory’s moving and layered And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
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not only did last night’s dream involve me being in an episode of Columbo— when filming wrapped, I started taking props off the walls
19 days ago
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“ingredient-driven cuisine” what else would it be driven by????
20 days ago
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lying awake waiting until it looks like a normal time to be responding to all of the birthday texts and DMs I got yesterday. I’ve got the thank yous locked and loaded, just gonna stare at the ceiling for a few hours before pressing send
20 days ago
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alexis simpson
24 days ago
sharks, i come today with an opportunity for you to invest in a cask of the finest amontillado in the world. please follow me into the catacombs so you can try it for yourselves
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Helen Rosner
22 days ago
The rule of Hanukkah: If it fries, it flies
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SIMONE 🩷
22 days ago
what is Zohran Mamdani's plan to end santacon (PLEASE)
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treated myself to first-class plane tickets for my birthday, forgetting i’d have to deal with first-class people
22 days ago
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Emily C. Hughes
22 days ago
the existence of both Tom Holland and Tom Hollander implies the existence of a bigger, more powerful Tom Hollandest
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Canadian English Dictionary
23 days ago
And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”
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deeply upsetting to have a dream in which you rush to the rescue of friends you thought you saw being hurt, only to realize that the video was AI and they are fine
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Philip Eil
24 days ago
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
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crossword puzzles have done more for texting slang than a million teens ever could
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BayBayFriend
24 days ago
Watching Bake-Off as a Yank is so awesome. You can understand what they call pudding, biscuits, etc. but suddenly they’re saying, “Toby’s cake will have all the classic Gingham Day flavors, in the form of Swat the Grump,” and then they make like a carnival game where you shoot lobsters with a cannon
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does anyone have any hot takes on vocabulary
25 days ago
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
26 days ago
Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.
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brown recluse spider implies the existence of brown social spider
about 1 month ago
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alexis simpson
about 1 month ago
(right said Fred voice after discovering i've once again tried to out my head through the arm hole) I'm too stupid for my shirt, too stupid for my shirt
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you know what they say: if the glove doesn’t fit, it’s because my dog ate it
about 1 month ago
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having the neurologist confidently schedule your next follow-up appt for one year out is as good as getting a clean MRI
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in the same way that an avocado has like a 3-hour period of being perfectly ripe, there is a very narrow window in which the caffeine you have consumed works to your advantage
about 1 month ago
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I love getting pictures that say “happy thanksgiving” from my dental office, property management company and a store I went to one time for watch repair. the opening of email attachments with clipart of a turkey is truly what makes me feel grateful this holiday
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins
about 1 month ago
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hop, skip AND a jump? in this economy??
about 1 month ago
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your seasonal reminder that it is not only feasible to do a vegan roast on thanksgiving but delicious
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remember when it was possible to lose entire hours’ worth of work if you forgot to save a word file? god, we’ve gone soft
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Kat Abughazaleh
about 1 month ago
why is it called “orthodontist”,,,, imagine telling someone you’ve got a dontist appointment
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I love writing a bad column to fix later
about 1 month ago
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Paul ✍🏻 Dean
about 1 month ago
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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i can’t stop rereading this
about 1 month ago
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something deeply humbling about finding yourself staring into the glass-walled “cupping room” of a north-brooklyn coffee shop and seeing your old classmate from acting school at NYU. realizing that that is you, unironically
about 2 months ago
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dreamed I had to retake the SATs (and had not prepared, in the dream tradition) and I was taking too long on the first section, and the proctor came over and was like “don’t worry, I’ll just drop this one straight into the fire” please interpet
about 2 months ago
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filling
@debamlen.bsky.social
’s shoes at the NYT feels like an impossible task. she has done more for the crossworld than can be described in words, building a puzzle community when no one else was looking or cared, and is the reason I get to do what I do today
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what if we said “all joking astride” instead? like we have all had a laugh, and taken it well, and now we can be serious
about 2 months ago
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my current income bracket can best be described as "freely succumbing to the indulgences of thriftbooks dot com"
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