Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...

Brittany Clayborne revealed what was said before her son's rare disease was discovered, which lead to him having a heart ...

Spell check clearly needs to get its priorities straight; punctuation can save lives, and yet spell check won’t flag that ...

An NYU team uses machine learning to analyze neural activity data and uncover how speech is produced. In a recent paper ...

13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the Scripps National Spelling Bee with a word many adults would struggle to even pronounce.

Scanning, scrolling, and swiping: New research uncovers why our brains are effective at quickly processing short messages Our brains detect basic sentence structure nearly as quickly as they ...

EVANSVILLE — A judge reduced former Evansville school board member Amy Word's felony conviction for maintaining a common nuisance to a misdemeanor Monday and sentenced Word to serve nine months ...

The scans revealed that the brain's left temporal cortex — part of the organ's outermost layer that's key for understanding language — showed higher activity for three-word sentences than ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained indeed.

Microsoft Word by default has certain grammar and spelling corrections turned on, such as automatically capitalizing the first letter of every sentence.