Most spelling mistakes are innocent, fleeting, and only mildly embarrassing. Then there are the ones that result in a loss of over $800 million during a bank heist ...

Commentary: We are losing something important when schools move away from the basics, letting technology fill in the gaps ...

Most applications for improving writing, such as ClearEdits, Sentence Aerobics, or StyleWriter, are aimed at professional writers and are priced accordingly. But what about people who just want to ...

A new "encrypted spelling test" on Playbuzz is stumping the internet. The quiz replaces letters with numbers and challenges people to choose the correct spelling of words. There are no trick questions ...

CHINO HILLS (CBSLA.com) — If 11-year-old Matthew was grading the spelling of a Chino Hills stop sign, the sixth-grade spelling bee whiz kid wouldn't be forgiving. "That's an F minus," Matthew said. It ...

Hackers attempting to steal nearly a billion dollars have had their plans mostly foiled by a basic spelling error, which occurred when they attempted to transfer money to a bogus company in Sri Lanka.

People who got their first taste of IT during the microcomputer boom in the 1970s and 1980s almost certainly started by writing programs in Basic — or, at least, they debugged programs typed in from ...