When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The brain holds a "visual dictionary" of words we have read, allowing quick recognition without ...

Picture Dictionary in Edge browser is a feature that lets users view an image related to the word when double-clicked and at the same time read it aloud. It’s a part of a multi-sensory processing ...

Ammon Shea spent a year reading the Oxford English Dictionary - 20 volumes, 21,730 pages and 59 million words - and he rates poring over a dictionary as enriching as reading a novel. Why? The prospect ...

A designer who has dyslexia has created a font to help dyslexic readers navigate text, designing letters in a way that avoids confusion and adds clarity. And in England, two researchers are compiling ...

It isn’t at all shady of us to point out that the word “shade” hasn’t just been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Related: Lady Gaga’s Twitter Beef With The Chainsmokers Is An Embarrassment To ...

Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. That symbolic importance is summed up in the phrase ...