In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

President of El Salvador says he won't return mistakenly deported man to U.S.

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...