We’re coming back to you with a new vocabulary challenge! It’s like one you’ve seen before (if you haven’t, check it out here ...

As is now well-known, scores on “intelligence” tests rose strongly over the last few generations, world-wide—this is the “Flynn Effect.” One striking anomaly, however, appears in American data: ...

English is full of words that sound alike, look alike, or seem so familiar that we stop questioning how we use them. But even ...

To the National Spelling Bee adding a new challenge to its competiton. New tests are being administered starting this year that emphasize that contestants also know the meaning of words. The addition ...

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

John McWhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Spelling bees have always been cute. But they’re about to get cuter, because now they will ...