If you’re serious about building your authority vocabulary, you need to be mindful not simply of the words you say, but of how you say them. Auslaut. Erysipelas. Saxicolous. Geeldikkop. Before you ...

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And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. If you weren't playing along at home, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real ...

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. Using Google Trends search data from the start of the year through ...