"Ths sntnc s mssng ts vwls." You likely figured out the words — "this sentence is missing its vowels" — even though they're lacking several letters of the alphabet. But how can you understand words ...

Whether you're playing Scrabble, Boggle or Words with Friends, here are nearly two dozen words you can play when you're stuck without a vowel.Click here to see words for your friends.. without vowels!

If you spend enough time online, you're bound to come come across a sentence like this: "Yr brn cn rd wrds wtht vwls." It looks like nonsense at first glance, but after a moment, you probably read it ...

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, ...

Writes St. Pauli Girl of Red Wing: “My preschooler asked me if there were any words without a vowel. I did not know, so I suggested we look it up on the Internet. “My Google search was ‘are there any ...

When we discussed the rule of ablautreduplication, we talked about inviolable vowel order in compound words - I-A-O, as in mish-mash or King Kong. Some of you may have noticed that the letter “e” was ...

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.