📖 Stat of the Day: Dictionary.com’s 2024 Word of the Year is very mindful, very cutesy. The word in question? “Demure.” Between January and the end of August, this term saw a ~1,200% increase in usage in digital web media alone, according to Dictionary.com, which attributes its rise to a series of videos made by Jools Lebron (an American TikToker, not an iced-out version of the basketball player). Alongside demure, Dictionary.com identified five words that shaped the cultural conversation in 2024 – brainrot, brat, extreme weather, Midwest nice, and weird.

🤔 Did You Know? In the Polish edition of Scrabble, the letter Z is only worth a single point – as opposed to 10 points in English – since it’s used so widely within the language.

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