People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

Finger Lakes Community College professor Trista Merrill's love of words leads to successful scholarship program.

"I was a pastor before I had the stroke. And so ... here, it became my family, and ... almost like my church," said ...

The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...