There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

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 ...

English spelling is famously inconsistent, and for New York-based writer and editor Gabe Henry, that maddening inconsistency set off a deeper curiosity. "I've always struggled with spelling in a ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

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