A wise mind from times past found a way to tell old tales with just short words. She took old Greek tales and made them new ...

A scientist has figured out how to harness that manpower to digitize old books. Technology. Web Security Words Help Digitize Old Books. August 14, 2008 3:26 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered.

Everybody loves a good whodunit, but in the case of the Book of Mormon, the mystery is more like a howhedunit.. For more than 190 years, critics of Mormon founder Joseph Smith have tried to find ...

Discover More Old Words: A version of this story ran in 2016; it has been updated for 2025. This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 19 Old-Fashioned Words for Writers.

An old book smell is often described as “musty,” but in a research setting, people chose other words including ‘smokey” or “woody.” “Chocolate” and “coffee” are usually high on ...

A researcher claims he's decoded 10 possible words in the famously unreadable Voynich manuscript, which has eluded interpretation for a century. The book's 250 vellum pages are filled with ...

Adrienne Raphel on the lexicographer Kory Stamper’s book “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries,” and on Merriam-Webster’s adaptation to the Internet age.

In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate. By Tas Tobey When you purchase an independently reviewed ...