There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most skilled spellers will admit that English is a mess. In our woeful orthography, ...

Which is why, for instance, Americans have slightly different spelling – a slightly ... about why the variety of English used in the US is different – and more traditional – to the variety ...

(“Stupefy,” “putrefy,” and “rarefy” also use this unusual spelling.) Next, find out what TL;DR means. Native English spellers have gotten used to the spelling of “Wednesday,” but ...

US is a Spanish-speaking country “This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish,” Trump said in a 2015 debate during his first presidential run. But, as a linguist specializing in ...

Long before Jamestown or the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Massachusetts in 1620, the US English style of spelling words such as 'honor', 'color', and 'center' were alive and well in British English.

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...

The annual Scripps National Spelling Bee was tough ... for the Trump team members involved in leaked messages about US air strikes on Yemen. Some of the key reactions to reports that a journalist ...