Most spelling mistakes are innocent, fleeting, and only mildly embarrassing. Then there are the ones that result in a loss of over $800 million during a bank heist ...

Sports Direct have been mocked online after shoppers spotted an embarrassing spelling mistake on their back-to-school stationery kits. The typo described the kits as ‘stationary’ kits – leading social ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The small, unnecessary difficulties in spelling are like potholes in the road to reading. Hardly anyone ...

Hackers attempting to steal nearly a billion dollars have had their plans mostly foiled by a basic spelling error, which occurred when they attempted to transfer money to a bogus company in Sri Lanka.

Seven-year-old Alayna Gifford and a few of her classmates were seated in a semicircle on the floor at Waterloo Elementary School. “OK, Alayna, your turn,” said teacher Staphanie Yonowitz, who is ...

A new "encrypted spelling test" on Playbuzz is stumping the internet. The quiz replaces letters with numbers and challenges people to choose the correct spelling of words. There are no trick questions ...

Internet slang terms like "boop" and "chef's kiss" were added to major dictionaries in 2024, reflecting the evolution of language. Experts suggest autocorrect may contribute to declining spelling ...

In the latest issue of the journal Brain, Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists link basic spelling difficulties for the first time with damage to seemingly unrelated regions of the brain, shedding ...