They are a ubiquitous childhood toy: alphabet fridge magnets. You may remember some from your own childhood, though they probably weren’t your most beloved of games. But for some people, especially ...

In the 19th century, they called it “colored hearing”—letters and words, when spoken, took on mental weight and shimmered with color in the mind’s eye. For Miss C., who was interviewed in 1892, “n” ...

A greedy lab left her owner lost for words after gobbling a whole fridge magnet alphabet. Juliette Hart had left six-month-old Bagheera in her friend’s kitchen – and thought it was pup-proofed.