Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Words, like people, can achieve a lot more ...

Let’s face it: Sometimes the English language can be downright bizarre. The plural of ox is oxen while the plural of box is boxes, ‘rough’ rhymes with ‘gruff’ even though the two words only have two ...

The length of a sentence isn’t what makes it hard to understand— it’s how long you have to wait for a phrase to be completed. When you’re reading a sentence, you don’t understand it word by word, but ...

Fix ‘dire’ justice system to make sentence revamp work, peers tell Rishi Sunak Sparing criminals jail will not stop reoffending because community sentences are not helping to rehabilitate prisoners, ...

Martha Brockenbrough, founder of The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, started National Grammar Day in 2008. Since then it has been held every year on March 4th, a date that also happens to ...