We are continuing our long vowel and short vowel sound series, and today is all about long e words! Download and print our long “e” word worksheets to help children distinguish between long e words ...

Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist ...

What makes some words easier to learn than others? Researchers found that ideophones — words that sound like what they mean — are easier to learn than regular words. This suggests that some of our ...

As different as the world’s languages may seem to the untrained ear, some concepts share the same sounds even in languages that are completely unrelated, a new study finds. In a study spotted by Atlas ...

What sound does the letter y make? The letter ‘y’ on the end of a word can make a long ‘e’ sound or a long ‘i’ sound. Here we will focus on words that end in ‘y’ that make the long ‘e’ sound. Before ...

Our brains 'time-stamp' the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear, shows a new study by a team of psychology and linguistics researchers. Its findings offer ...

Think twice before you use words like “lackaday” or “nonplussed”—they may mean something quite different than what you’d assume. We’re all familiar with the onomatopoeia—a word that phonetically ...