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 ...

A medic was left horrified by the baby name that one mum chose - but the mum-to-be was insistent that she wanted to use the ...

A doctor has shared her horror at a new mum's choice of baby name, and explained how she was forced to speak up about it - ...

Needless to say, it has changed considerably throughout the ages, but how exactly has the pronunciation of Greek changed since ancient times? A sample of Linear B script, the earliest Greek writing, ...

The statistical tests run on the data were Spearman non-parametric tests to verify correlations and independent sample t-tests to verify whether a specific belief would be partly responsible for ...

Here & Now revisits one of the show’s favorite topics: mispronounced words. It turns out we all do it — sometimes spending ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

You can see more examples of her work and contact her at ... Host Ken Jennings is a stickler for correct pronunciation, and some of his decisions have led to outrage from fans and contestants.

In a dark coincidence, the researchers point to California's current catastrophe as a timely example of their recently published findings. "In that publication, fairly incredibly, we use the example ...