Pilots and air traffic controllers saying "tree," "fife," and "niner" instead of three, five, and nine. What is that about?

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There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...

Down the sides of sofas, underneath carpets, eaten by children and pets alike; somewhere in the world, there are over a ...

I enjoy words and language. I am fascinated that 26 letters of the English language can form approximately one million words.

In other words, what is the oldest confirmed alphabet in the world? Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

A Falls Church, Va., public library moved a pro-Palestinian alphabet book to a different location in its kids’ section this week following a review of the book by library staff.

In essence, alphabets store sounds. There are different kinds of alphabets. English speakers use the Latin alphabet, a phonemic alphabet that represents sounds with twenty-six letters written with ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has officially added 11 uniquely Filipino words, including gigil, kababayan, and salakot, to its March 2025 update. “A word that appears regularly on lists of ...

Martha Speaks’ teaches kids that if you feed a dog alphabet soup, the letters will go into its brain and then the dog will know how to speak English,” Colbert said. “Which coincidentally is also how ...