As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky ...

If your car is noisy, it could be due to your tires, because of the tread. Here's everything you need to know and how each one affects your road noise.

Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already learned.

Author Greg Pincus explains how patterns — the rhythm of stepping over cracks in the sidewalk or making coffee — can guide your writing.

Ad of the Day: John Cooper Clarke writes and performs ‘Proper Sound’ poem for Co-Op The rousing film comes from media production company Iconoclast and ad agency Lucky Generals.

There is a precise and deliberate poetry in Laura Marling’s new record, perhaps born of a more reflective period that she has spent looking at patterns: of motherhood, of generational family ...

A team of researchers, including psycholinguist Jutta Mueller from the University of Vienna, has discovered that newborns are capable of learning complex sound sequences that follow language-like ...

AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions Models look for sound patterns undetectable by the human ear ...

Weaving together memoir and history, poetry and prose, intimate details from her life and more general observations about the South, the book is a testament to Trethewey’s command of language ...

Reading poetry can be a daunting affair. In Australian Poetry Month, an expert shows us how one poem works – and what it reveals.

Key points Poetry is a sensual, meaningful, spiritually enlightening companion, especially during times of upheaval. The pleasure of sound and rhythm is hard-wired in us and linked to heartbeat ...