Words aren't simply sounds connected to meanings, but involve a hidden "middle layer" that might unlock a deeper understanding of how language works generally.

Did the word just kind of disintegrate before your eyes? Become strange, incomprehensible, or a meaningless string of letters? If so, what just happened to you is nothing new. The phenomenon was ...

The reading version of wordnesia occurs when a common, correctly spelled word either seems as though it can’t possibly be spelled correctly, or like it’s some bizarre combination of letters ...

In a word: Exploring the ‘Y’ of our alphabet We answer the burning question bothering us — OK, me — since we were young schoolchildren: 'Is Y a consonant or a vowel?' ...

The app "Sesame Street Alphabet Kitchen" focuses on three- and four-letter word combinations, building vocabulary and phonics skills. It can be played using the vowels from the Tiggly Words set or ...