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

Arrival weaves a narrative centering on an alien language, which can be hard to comprehend since it presents complex ideas about time and perception.

Cognitive modelling experiments were conducted on a dataset of six Hindi short stories read aloud by 5 expert readers, containing 2 measures of word duration. Our results show that both surprisal as ...

Fifty subjects are recruited to complete a 26-word paragraph handwriting task, designed to include all possible orthographic combinations of Arabic characters, during which the hand and stylus ...

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It begins to take shape even before Piranesi, in the interminable spaces sketched by the various members of the Bibbiena family and by Juvara; but their sketches still make sense; spatially they can ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added several "untranslatable" words, including 'gigil,' a Tagalog term describing intense cuteness. These new words, from diverse global regions ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize ...