Psycholinguists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain found that when reading, people are not only able to predict specific words, but also words' grammatical properties, which helps them to read ...

I saw you working hard. I appreciate you working hard. At a glance, these sentences seem grammatically identical. But in fact, the grammar of the second one is wildly ...

Words are not random units. Rather, they follow hidden linguistic structures that demonstrate how language generates meaning ...

It seems like just yesterday I was writing a column debunking the myth that it’s wrong to start a sentence with a conjunction. And it seems like just the day before yesterday that I wrote the same ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

Microsoft Word is all too easy to hate. As one of my colleagues at Slate put it in a recent conversation, the venerable program’s ubiquity makes it a bit like the cable company of the software world: ...