How the brain deciphers words can explain a lot about why humans are able to pick up patterns and read words even when vowels ...

Deservedly so or no, you may well have been called a “genius” so often that it hardly even ... TV show twist. These overused words might have strayed from their original meaning, but there ...

Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ... or not). Read on to ...

BABIES COME into the world seeking out comfort, so their first word is often “mama ... death may sound like a hard read. Instead, it is a beautiful and even strangely comforting one, with ...

Even James once recommended reading ... meaning of the components of the word. So Strether is saying that while he intends sincerity, he doesn’t trust his own instincts, and thus he is perhaps ...

This, he says, is because people differ in the concepts they have even for basic terms, so what someone thinks they are saying is often not ... their brain while they read a list of words.

It is over 40 years since the publication of James Boyd White’s When Words Lose Their Meaning. Although the precise year was 1984, Orwell and his Ministry of Truth are not the subject ...