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This past summer, the Today show used its Twitter account to share some news about the birth of an unusually heavy child. Along with a link to its story about the immense infant, Today included for ...

So I keep seeing young people spell the word “whoa” as “woah.” And I can’t figure out why this is. It’s not like “wh” is an unusual way for a word to begin. (What? Where? Who?) And it’s not like the ...

For Benjamin Hall, there is only one way to spell the word “whoa.” And it’s not in the dictionary. Mr. Hall, a 16-year-old high school junior from Huntsville, Texas, spells out w-o-a-h in social media ...