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    From Urdu to Old Norse How Wordle took over the world

    Feb 18, 2022 2 minutes
    By Emma Graham-Harrison and Dan Milmo

    It only took two days for Louan Bengmah’s French-language version of the viral Wordle game to run into trouble. His online dictionary threw up “slush”, Québécois slang that was essentially an English word co-opted in North America.

    French players hoping to join the hundreds of thousands of English speakers cluttering up social media with boastful grids showing

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