Researchers Have Theories As To Why In A Nutshell The study tested made-up words, not actual profanity. Researchers created nonsense words using sound types that prior research has linked to curse ...

Across dozens of languages, people associate the same sounds with the same shapes, according to new research. What can this tell us about how language first developed in humans? A new study found that ...

Non-reading baboons can learn to distinguish written real words from nonsense words. For example, the baboons could learn to recognize words such as done and vast and distinguish them from nonsense ...

Jargon aphasia is a strange syndrome which cause people to suddenly say nonsense words while otherwise speaking normally. Often they won’t even know that they did it. And scientists are not entirely ...

A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left hemisphere ...

Does the word “quingel” make you giggle? How about “finglam? Or “rembrob?” Don’t worry about reaching for the dictionary. These are all nonsense words generated by a computer. But if you think they ...

A swear word is like a linguistic punch in the nose. Virtually every language and culture has them—and virtually every language and culture formally disapproves of them. But that doesn’t stop them ...

In the world of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, to hear the tale of the Lorax, you have pay the “Once-ler,” after which, whispering to you through a “snergelly” hose, he will paint you a word-picture of ...

Rising numbers of schools are introducing children to nonsense words such as "voo", "spron" and "terg" as part of a drive towards back-to-basics reading methods, it has emerged. Schools are teaching ...