The secret physics at the core of every syllable, starting with the first words we speak. Human language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, ...

Nearly everyone associates certain colours with different vowel sounds, according to a new study. Research conducted by linguists found that most people have a similar idea of which colours and vowels ...

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A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not all you need to know about vowels. There's more to these workhorse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think. The most common vowel sound in ...

How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication. Vowel-less words, like srsly, thx, k, ...

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