Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge comes from listener Jim Bricker, of Wayland, Mass. Think of three common six-letter words that have vowels in the second and fifth positions. The last five ...

But how can you understand words without vowels? Your brain does not read words letter by letter, experts told Live Science. Instead, it looks for patterns, considers context then makes predictions.

Has your Twitter feed become full of people sharing green and yellow square emojis? That’s people sharing their Wordle scores. If you want to win the game in fewer goes than your friends and followers ...

In our popular puzzle, players have six chances to guess a five-letter word - but it could be one of thousands. The player's goal is to whittle down that list as fast as possible and clever strategies ...

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, ...

A vowel team is when there's vowels working together but they only make one vowel sound. Remember, a syllable is a word part that only has one vowel sound. Our vowels are A, E, I, O, U, and oftentimes ...

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 ...

Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and ...

On-air challenge: Every answer today is a six-letter word or name that has four vowels and two consonants and is pronounced in four syllables. Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge comes from ...