Co-authored with Eileen Cardillo, DPhil. Just as tip-of-the-tongue moments provoke a unique form of frustration, finding just the right word elicits a particular kind of satisfaction. Every time we ...

People of all ages experience word-finding difficulties — those inconvenient "brain blips" that occur when you cannot retrieve the word you really want to say. There are few things more frustrating ...

Today is National Wordsmith Day which, as this website states, “celebrates the weavers of words.” The site elaborates the celebration as follows, “If you have ever read something and it stuck in your ...

We've all experienced it: you're in the middle of a conversation, searching for a word, a name, or a title, and… nothing. You know you know it—you can almost feel it—but it just won't come. This ...

Ursula Kania does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

A neuroimaging study by a University at Buffalo psychologist suggests that phonics, a method of learning to read using knowledge of word sounds, shouldn't be overlooked in favor of a whole-language ...

The Oatmeal (of Webcomic fame) adapted one of his party boardgame as a web game. The goal is to find a word from a bunch of letters. To help you, you can buy some clues with points. You start with 30 ...

We’ve all experienced it: you’re in the middle of a conversation, searching for a word, a name, or a title, and… nothing. You know you know it–you can almost feel it–but it just won’t come. This ...