The joy of lex: Wirdle.
The article discusses the issue of language extinction and the efforts made by speakers of endangered and minority languages to preserve them. It focuses on Julie Den-nison, a speaker of Shaetlan, a language of the Shetland Isles. Julie came up with the idea of creating a version of the popular word...
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