Winston Churchill's Way With Words Churchill wrote every word of every one of his speeches — he said he'd spend an hour working on a single minute of a speech.

A Way Without Words: Mummenschanz Mimes Celebrate 40 The experimental Swiss mime troupe took Broadway by storm in the 1970s. Now the masked performers are bringing their hard-to-describe ...

A Way with Words: Language and Human Nature In English, we can babble, bark, bleat and bray. But we can also ask, cite, pose, preach and tell. Psychologist Steven Pinker says that studying how we ...

Author and activist Tiffany Hammond talks about her new children's book A Day With No Words. It details a day in the life of non-speaking kids with autism and their families.

Each Monday from 1-2 pm on North Country Public Radio, it is A Way With Words, a lively hour-long public radio show about the English language. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett take ...

Perkins didn’t know the woman. She was a stranger. But she saw something in him, and knew he needed the prompting to accept the help. “Her words had a ripple effect on my life.

Scientists have found a way to decode a stream of words in the brain using MRI scans and artificial intelligence. The system reconstructs the gist of what a person hears or imagines, rather than ...

One word has become unavoidable on the campaign trail — woke. But what does it really mean and where does it come from? The word has a long and serious history in Black culture.

The language-learning platform Babbel has compiled a list of the most mispronounced words of 2023. NPR hosts attempt to read a few of them without assistance.

Sunday Puzzle: An I and an A, the Long Way. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Jonathan Cosin of West Hartford, Connecticut, and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Sunday Puzzle ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with author and activist Tiffany Hammond about her new children's book A Day With No Words. It details a day in the life of non-speaking autistic kids and their families.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with author and activist Tiffany Hammond about her new children's book A Day With No Words. It details a day in the life of non-speaking autistic kids and their families.