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All aboard the comedy train set to whip through Wordia station next week! We have been busy catching up with comedy friends old and new. The sketch comedy pair of Mould and Arrowsmith are the first stop on Monday so be sure to catch their definition of recursion, as well as our old friend George [...]

It has been another busy week at Wordia towers as we are gearing up for our next campaign working with the great and talented people at theredropoms.org.uk on their Gay Africa campaign.
On Monday I got to catch up with a great friend of the Wordia team Dean Atta, who is a very talented poet and [...]

Well, then you’ll love our new word quiz: VOCABILITY - a word challenge game with a difference!
Test just good your vocabulary is – and how many words you know compared to your friends – in our new, never-ending word quiz. Challenge your buddies and the rest of the world – and test your vocability!
Good luck.
http://www.wordia.com/Games/biggest-vocabulary/question
A very happy new [...]

It’s been a fair few weeks since our last blog posting here at Wordia towers, as like most tech or video content start-ups, we’re been absolutely snowed with work – importantly, pushing forward on a few different fronts!
We’re now super busy developing Wordia Schools: a dedicated Wordia schools environment that works within school online safety [...]

Next week we’re trying something a little different over here at Wordia headquarters. We’re partnering with leading literature website, East of the Web on an exciting online project that explores the connections between words through story and video.
We’re looking for very short flash fiction stories, no longer than 500 words, that incorporate the following seven [...]

Today, I’m very proud to say that we’ve reached our first birthday!
As you might well know/remember, Wordia was launched this time last year from Dr. Johnson’s house, in the City of London.
Today it’s not only Wordia’s first birthday, it’s Dr. Johnson’s tercentenary! 300 years to the day that the pre-eminent English scholar was born [...]

What do strawberries & cream, queuing and a bit of sunburn all epitomise? That’s right, it’s that fantastic time of year again when the world’s elite descend on Wimbledon for a fortnight of doing battle on the green courts!
Game, set and match to the Wordia team who have working with the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) [...]

So it is all systems go here at the Wordia office as we are checking & re-checking everything in preparation for the launch of refugee week! Don’t forget that you can come and join us with the Celebrating Sanctuary festival on London’s southbank this Sunday. We are going to be down there with the other 22 thousand [...]

We’ve been really busy over the last few months here at Wordia HQ, heads-deep in code and production rushes, working on some exciting new developments. In that time, you’ve emailed us in your dozens, kindly giving us feedback on the current Beta site – what you like and what you hate – and we’ve responded!
 Firstly, [...]