The U.S. is one of the more complex cases for the spelling of this word, because prior to the Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. from 1920-1933, the use of “whisky” was fairly universal.

That’s part of how English orthography (spelling) got to be the way it is today. This system of standardization quickly affected how people understood the language. Also, a long time ago, back in the ...

The pandemic has threatened to overwhelm English whisky producers. In March, when fallout from the pandemic resulted in his business “going over the cliff,” Szor predicted a 50% loss in annual ...

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most skilled spellers will admit that English is a mess.

Why English spelling is so messed up. The explanation may not comfort you, but it may at least make you see the language as less arbitrarily maddening. Newsletter sign up Newsletter ...

The question is whether we’ll proceed until the end of time making do with a woefully goofy spelling system when English is, for better or for worse, the world’s closest thing to a universal ...

English spelling is not a game for the weak at heart, and it has nothing to do with higher literary culture the way French spelling does. This being France, the debate is laced with political theater.

English bristles with spelling-related discord, a result of its slightly chaotic system born of hybrid origins, diverse influences, scribal interference and other historical contingencies.

The English Spelling Society is proposing an International English Spelling Congress to more closely align the written and spoken word. By Dawn Rhodes. UPDATED: August 18, 2019 at 11:37 PM CDT.

Perfect spelling, vocabulary, usage, grammar, punctuation and style do not necessarily correlate perfectly with intelligence and competence, but most people infer that they do. Thus perception is ...

Decoding English from spoken to spelled is a tradition that’s almost 100 years old at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but how did the language get so convoluted in the first place?

The first English printing press, in the 15th century, was operated by Belgians who didn’t know the language and made numerous spelling errors (such as "busy" in place of "bisy").