Our vocabulary continues to grow and expand even in adulthood. Just ten years ago, the word 'blog' did not yet exist - and now we no longer remember when we heard this word for the first time or when ...

When literate adults pick up a book, they don't start sounding out each word letter by letter or sound by sound, the way their kindergarten or first-grade teacher probably told them to do when they ...

We start to talk before we can read, so hearing words, and getting familiar with their sounds, is obviously a critical part of learning a language. But in order to read, and especially in order to ...

On-air challenge: I'm going to give you some words ending in the letter A. Anagram each of them to get a familiar word starting with A. For example: IDEA --> AIDE. Last week's challenge, from listener ...

This is a summertime puzzle. I'm going to give you three words starting with the letters H, O, and T. For each set you give me a word that can precede each of mine to complete a compound word or a ...