If you've ever second-guessed yourself while trying to spell words like "beautiful," "receive," and "license," you're far ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a ...

Over the last thousand years English spelling has been influenced by lots ... Invent your own tricks for remembering these words. Test yourself to check your progress. Come back to the lists ...

An English article ... Find out about words like country and cousin, where the 'uh' sound is spelt with the letters 'ou'. Ready for the Bitesize Primary spelling quiz for KS2?

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...

Have you ever wondered why "choir" and "liar" rhyme, but "laughter" and "daughter" don't? Or why "sew" and "new" look like they should match, but sound nothing alike, while "kernel" and "colonel ...