The answers to today's Quordle, game #1381, are… Games that feature five vowels always seem to be trickier, and today was no ...

The secret physics at the core of every syllable, starting with the first words we speak. Human language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, ...

Go back a little further though, and you will begin to struggle, partly thanks to what is known as the Great Vowel Shift, or ...

Every elementary school student learns it early in their lives: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y. Scott Zolak, however, was apparently absent on the day that was taught in his school, and he adamantly ...

How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication. Vowel-less words, like srsly, thx, k, ...

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We all know that English spelling is rarely a good guide to pronunciation. One big reason for this is the prevalence of schwa in the spoken language. That’s why dictionaries and other written guides ...

McLaughlin, who was up against Rahima Schwenkbeck, a travel lover from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Evan Thiam, a LEGO fanatic from Alexandria, Virginia, started the episode strong. She nailed both the $1K ...