Have you ever wondered why English spelling often seems to defy logic — like why choir and liar rhyme, but laughter and ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

This article attempts to address the challenge of mother tongue influence on English pronunciation, to briefly explain the linguistic reasons, and to demonstrate how Linguistics provide solutions for ...

This May, students from across the United States will gather in Washington D.C., for the 100th anniversary of the Scripps ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a ...