"Why is Y sometimes a vowel?" Mental Floss wondered.
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Merriam-Webster shared "9 words for fellowship" in a "toast to friendship" for the new film Tolkien.
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"A fire broke out at the forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood," Atlas Obscura reported.
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The Library of Congress "has made available a free online collection of a hundred children's books from a century ago or more," the New York Times wrote.
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Author Yara Rodrigues Fowler shared her picks for the "top 10 bilingual books" with the Guardian.