The words you use can have a powerful effect on people, but new research suggests its not the words themselves that carry meaning, but instead its the individual letters. And researchers from Germany ...

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds ...

Word of the day: Onomatopoeia means a word that imitates real sound. Words like buzz, crash, boom, and whisper copy natural noise. Writers use this literary device to create sound imagery and stronger ...