If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

Short selling is a trading strategy where an investor borrows some stocks from a broker, betting that the price of the stock is going to decline in future, sells them at the current market value ...

Word has always been the workhorse app of the Microsoft Office suite. Nearly everyone who uses Office ends up using Word at some point, whether it be for writing memos, typing up agendas, creating ...

Short bowel syndrome is an extremely rare disease of the intestines. Only about 10,000 to 20,000 people in the U.S. have it, including adults and children. Here’s what you should know. When ...

In other words, don’t think of a stable-value fund as an emergency fund unless you’re already retired or close to it. Second, even though stable-value funds buy insurance wrappers to help ...

March 30, 2025 • NPR's Eyder Peralta plays the puzzle with WKSU listener Amy Anderson of Aurora, Ohio, along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.