The purpose of this research was to examine whether adults rely on morphemic spelling rules or word-specific knowledge when spelling simple words. We examined adults' knowledge of two of the simplest ...

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We all make spelling mistakes from time to time. In fact, even the word “misspelled” is often incorrectly spelled as “mispelled.” It’s easy to get many words wrong, especially homophones – words that ...

Commentary: We are losing something important when schools move away from the basics, letting technology fill in the gaps with spellcheck.

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

Jimmy Kimmel recruited three of Los Angeles' top young spellers to compete in a nontraditional spelling bee Monday night, effectively demonstrating just how bad President Donald Trump is at spelling ...

OXON HILL, Md. — Ananya Vinay never looked all that impressed by any of the words she was given in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 12-year-old from Fresno, California, showed ...

Thousands of people have admitted to not knowing a simple grammar rule after a mum-of-two posted a now-viral video on TikTok. At the age of 32, Gemma Lou only just realised the reason why adverbs such ...

A prominent 9/11 memorial in the city where the terrorist hijackers received their flight training includes a misspelled word. It refers to some fallen military in the war against terrorism as "heros" ...

Why are some words rejected in the NYT Spelling Bee? While Wordle’s daily hidden word comes from a pre-picked list, the New York Times’ Spelling Bee follows a completely different format when picking ...