(By Roy Williams) According to cognitive neuroscientists, the most important gift of the human race is our ability to attach complex meanings to sounds. The written language was developed only to make ...

How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication. Vowel-less words, like srsly, thx, k, ...

In our popular puzzle, players have six chances to guess a five-letter word - but it could be one of thousands. The player's goal is to whittle down that list as fast as possible and clever strategies ...