Practicing inclusive language and design helps to get and keep customers, boost employee engagement, can help avoid embarrassing PR when the wrong words are used, and more. True story. My assistant ...

For the first time, speech has been decoupled from consequence. We now live alongside AI systems that converse knowledgeably and persuasively—deploying claims about the world, explanations, advice, ...

Along with babies’ first steps, their first words are a milestone that lots of parents look forward to. But the line between babies making sounds and actually saying words is a bit blurry. After all, ...

Your brain processes letters, words, sounds, semantics and grammar at breakneck speed. StudioM1/iStock via Getty Images Plus The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s ...

English speakers already have over a million words at our disposal – so why are we adding 1,000 new ones a year to the lexicon? And how? As dictionary publishers never tire of reminding us, our ...

Of all the adages that get bandied about, perhaps the most wrong-headed is “Sticks and stones can break my bones/ But words can never harm me.” We all know from experience that it isn’t true –whether ...

Sounds are all around us. We are constantly hearing them and so they have made their way into our language. There are many words for sounds. Words that recreate the sounds. Ring, ding, screech, clunk, ...