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

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

The circumstances of how this story came to be,” he wrote, “still blow my hair back every time I think of them.” Here’s what happened. Two women urged Walker to complete the unfinished novel written ...

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

Spotify is investing €1 million in audiobooks in regional languages, starting with French and Dutch, to increase non-English ...