Every day, millions of people are asked to retype sequences of squiggly letters so Web sites. A scientist has figured out how to harness that manpower to digitize old books.

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 ...

But there are also many old, out-of-use words for very specific types of writers (and also terrible writers). At the risk of being a puffer, here are some obscure things to call a quill-driver.

The final words Moroni writes are to ask all people to come unto Christ. This photo comes from the faith's Book of Mormon video series.

A researcher claims he's decoded 10 possible words in the famously unreadable Voynich manuscript, which has eluded interpretation for a century.

If you're a sesquipedalian (or just a plain old logophile), then you know the power of a prodigious vocabulary. Sometimes it's about adding to your stockpile of words, so you always have the ...

And by the time she was about 18 months old, she was recognizing the words in the books her mother read her.

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 ...

In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate.

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.

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap ...