In a breakthrough that could transform our understanding of life on Earth, scientists have uncovered a sophisticated communication system used by sperm whales—one that mirrors the building blocks of ...

What is a digraph? Well, there are plenty of them in English and it’s where two ‘written letters’ represent one phonetic sound. For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are ...

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Sound doesn’t fossilize. Language doesn’t either. Even when writing systems have developed, they’ve represented full-fledged and functional languages. Rather than preserving the first baby steps ...