Tired of learning new English words only to forget them the next day? In this lesson, Claire shares five proven strategies to ...

Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort ...

A recent study from Unscramblerer.com found the most mispronounced words in the U.S. based on frequent internet searches for ...

Uproarious and ingenious, Burrows’s Dictionary Stories is more than 150 shorts composed entirely from example sentences taken from 12 different dictionaries. Burrows crafts tense postapocalyptic ...

(NEXSTAR) – It’s not just you; almost no one knows how to pronounce “acai.” That’s the major takeaway from a recent study conducted by Unscrambled Words, which sought to determine the words, terms or ...

Armed with a new list of words and using the power of social media, a new study has found that by the age of 20, a native English-speaking American knows 42,000 dictionary words. How many words do we ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

The English language is full of fascinating patterns, exceptions, and creative spellings that make it one of the most studied languages in the world. Among these linguistic wonders are words that ...