Capital letters were the backbone of Western civilisation. They paraded about at the start of sentences, puffed up proper nouns and gave the vibe of owning the message. Kids learnt A before a. Essays, ...

Technology is always transforming language and communication. After all, it's thanks to predictive text and autocorrect that a word as innocent as "duck" became synonymous with "fuck." But one of the ...

Cognitive scientists at John Hopkins University noticed that people find it very difficult to identify a lowercase "g", despite seeing it every day. Michael McCloskey, the senior author of the study, ...