In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

In addition to such Americanisms as “moccasin” and “cookies,” Webster featured updated spellings of a number of words, including “theater,” “public” and “color.” As Gabe Henry ...

Psychologists have found that a person's own discomfort with their name can lead to mental health struggles, because our ...

She's one of the biggest popstars in the world. So it's no surprise that Sabrina Carpenter's love for British slang has ...

While Scripps National Spelling Bee this week tries to convince us that America can spell, Google has the state-by-state breakdown to prove otherwise. SEE ALSO: California State University's grad ...

The third place team fell to collodion, a wound sealant, after spelling borborygmi, the sound of a digesting stomach, correctly. “Given how many new words healthcare trainees have to learn, I figured ...

*Dammit, here we go again. Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches and a coalition of African-American faith and civil rights ...

Um, may I hear that in a sentence? Every year, the Scripps National Spelling Bee crowns a new whiz-kid winner and introduces the country to a word they’ve likely never heard of — let alone ...