It’s common to be told that filler words are bad, whether you’re in an in-person interview or chatting online, but avoiding them outright can worsen communication.

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...

Hyphenaters used to be fearless. Bad to the bone. Unflinching in the face of multi-word adjectives that required two or even three hyphens. An editor would see the terms “anti” and “social” and “media ...

When you compose a document and need either a subscript or a superscript – the little numbers you put beside words to indicate a footnote or by numbers for exponents – Microsoft Word gives you three ...

A Kerala student showcased a stunning "Talk-to-Write" device at the Ente Keralam Expo 2025, which was scheduled in May, that aims to help people with disability. The AI-assisted device can turn spoken ...

There are days when the blank page presents itself not as an invitation but as a test. It challenges us to prove we are up to the task. Even academics, whose professional lives revolve around writing, ...

A veteran writing teacher isn’t impressed with the output of generative AI. Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has disrupted a myriad of fields, including education, publishing, market ...

Score-keeping fosters creativity in games, but in real-life institutions it makes for rigid policies and distorts values, according to this trenchant philosophical Continue reading » World Enemy No. 1 ...

Everyone on the planet has heard of Microsoft Excel. It’s the world’s analytical infrastructure. Estimates are that 1,500,000,000 people use Excel. Users love it at least twice a day and typically ...