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Lola Christina Alao

What is Wirdle? 'Shetland Wordle' taken down after NYT legal notice

Creators of a Shetland dialect version of Wordle, I Hear Dee, have been told it has to shut down. 

The New York Times, which owns the copyright to Wordle, has threatened the Scots language game, called Wirdle, with legal action, saying it may have a breach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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