In this video, I share the real struggles of teaching reading and decoding English words that just don’t follow the rules—like 'tomb', 'bomb', 'comb', 'limb', and 'climb.' It's a humorous glimpse into ...

English spelling is crazy. Even people born and raised in English-speaking societies who speak no other language still often have a lot of trouble with English spelling. You may think that English is ...

One of the best things going on around 200 B.C.E. (from this linguist’s point of view, at least) was that a librarian in Alexandria, Aristophanes of Byzantium, invented the first punctuation system ...

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There isn't a strong link between good spelling and intelligence, but that doesn't mean spelling doesn't matter. Proper spelling makes people perceive you as more intelligent and can increase your ...

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My 11-year-old student sighs. How can the same letters make so many different sounds? We are looking at the letter combination “ough”, which can be read in seven different ways: “through”, “thorough”, ...

Silent letters are the scourge of spellers and often a stumbling block when learning how to write in English. To the modern eye, it’s unclear what these letters are doing in the words in question, and ...

LC:Silent letters are found in lots of English words and because you can’t hear them when you say the word it makes spelling these words really tricky. Bahhh. We all know this is a lamb ahhhh, Baaa ...

Spelling campaigners are taking arms against a sea of troubles in the latest skirmish in a 100-year-old battle to make written English easier to grasp. English-speaking children may take twice as long ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites, ...