'Believe', 'separate' and 'surprise' are some of the most commonly used words in the English language yet they are commonly misspelt. Why is that? What's so difficult about spelling English words that ...

You've probably noticed that English spelling is not as consistent or phonetically reliable as the spelling of many other languages. Writing English is sort of like one of those computer games where ...

In this video, I share the real struggles of teaching reading and decoding English words that just don’t follow the rules—like 'tomb', 'bomb', 'comb', 'limb', and 'climb.' It's a humorous glimpse into ...

This May, students from across the United States will gather in Washington D.C., for the 100th anniversary of the Scripps Spelling Bee, determined to conquer a spelling system that has baffled us for ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. Note: Usually, History Today posts appear on TIME.com with American spellings. For this ...

The complexity of the English spelling system is to blame for soaring levels of illiteracy among teenagers, according to a researcher. Children are struggling to read and write at a young age because ...

I pushed a chatbot through several millennia of linguistic evolution. An AI from the year 5000 lectured me about pronouns.

The place is a tourist hotel in the South. An American tourist asks the receptionist, “Where’s the elevator?” After some ...