STORY: Why is English so hard to spell? There are clear differences between how words are written and how they are said. If English is your first language you may not realize it’s not that normal. In ...

Tear in eye your dress you’ll tear. So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer, Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it? Just compare heart, beard and heard, Dies and diet, lord and ...

There are about a million words in the English language, but do you know the longest word in English? You may think it’s antidisestablishmentarianism, at 28 letters ...

Chandler acknowledges that little or non-existent spelling instruction puts children with an existing or emerging learning ...

Spelling lists. Spelling tests. Spelling bees. Adults of a certain age who remember anything about elementary school likely recall spelling as central to their literacy instruction. That’s not ...

Consistently poor spelling can indicate that a child has dyslexia or another related learning challenge. If that's masked by ...

And should you blame not your study skills, but the language itself? The news release was ludicrous: A group called The Spelling Society wanted us to know it was hanging out outside the Scripps ...

Could spelling reform help English literacy rates? Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Frankieleon/Flickr. Listen to Episode 235 of Slate’s The Gist: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play ...

Most people confidently misspell at least half of these everyday words in their emails and documents—even executives and ...