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 ...

In the latest issue of the journal Brain, Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists link basic spelling difficulties for the first time with damage to seemingly unrelated regions of the brain, shedding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (TND) — More than a third of America's fourth graders can’t read on a basic level, according to the most recent national test assessments. American Public Media's senior producer and ...