This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only the third-cleverest species on Earth. The first two places go to mice and dolphins. But perhaps Douglas Adams’s comic ...

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...

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 ...

The human brain can make sense of sentences — even when the vowels are missing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Teaching a child to read when phonics feels like a foreign language? Been there. And if your kid is still tripping over “cat,” “pin,” or “mud,” these CVC Short Vowel worksheets are your new best ...

Every now and then a label pops up, seemingly out of nowhere. You come to find that some cool people you follow on Instagram are wearing it, that it has a store you’ve never been to, and that it shows ...

That’s the view of Manu Nandha, founder of the House of A.E.I.O.U. – a creative platform based in west London’s Southall neighborhood. Also known as the House of Vowels, Nandha’s platform regularly ...

Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, ...