Join Josh and Ollie as they dive into the hilarious and baffling quirks of the English language! From tricky homonyms and ...

The 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is under way, near Washington, D.C. Linguist Ben Zimmer explains what makes some words difficult to... Spelling Bee Pregame: Why Are Some Words So Hard?

'Believe', 'separate' and 'surprise' are some of the most commonly used words in the English language yet they are commonly misspelt. Why is that? What's so difficult about spelling English words that ...

Misty Adoniou is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. She is the author of the Cambridge University Press book 'Spelling ...

Today’s youth can achieve extraordinary results—if they push beyond comfort, build discipline, and strengthen foundational ...

Johnny in Topeka can’t read, but Janne in Helsinki is effortlessly finishing his storybooks. Such a disparity may be expected by now, but the reason might come as a surprise: It probably has much less ...

Learning to spell correctly means you’re more likely to be understood. You can improve your confidence by reading widely and learning to use spelling strategies. Punctuation - Edexcel Using ...

Annals of Dyslexia, Vol. 37 (1987), pp. 90-108 (19 pages) Currently popular systems for classification of spelling words or errors emphasize the learning of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and ...

Let's face up to the costs of English spelling. David Crystal’s well publicised Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling (September 2012) and Masha Bell’s ebook Spelling it out: the ...