Go to this link from the New York Times and start guessing words. That's a topic we've covered a bunch here. According to the Times' WordleBot, the best starting word is: CRANE. Others that I've seen ...

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We often hear about “silent e,” that magical letter that turns a can into a cane or a glob into a globe, as Tom Lehrer put it in his charming song for the Electric Company many years ago, but a ...

Steve Hartman is a CBS News correspondent. He brings viewers moving stories from the unique people he meets in his weekly award-winning feature segment "On the Road." Choctaw, Oklahoma — ...

Across diverse languages, a fascinating phenomenon occurs: word-initial consonants are systematically lengthened. This subtle lengthening, often imperceptible to untrained ears, demonstrates a ...

Speech consists of a continuous stream of acoustic signals, yet humans can segment words from each other with astonishing precision and speed. To find out how this is possible, a team of linguists has ...

An example of word-initial lengthening in Mojeño Trinitario, an Arawakan language spoken in the Amazon region of Bolivia. The word-initial /n/ (100ms) is significantly longer than the /n/ in the ...

A new study has revealed the exact origin of the Pacific Ocean's mysterious "biotwang" noises, which were first detected by underwater surveys near the Mariana Trench in 2014. When you purchase ...