It’s no secret that there are a few colorful British spellings out there—starting with the word color! In addition to that word gaining an extra u in the British version, British English turns ...

Color no one surprised: These days, even a new crayon name draws criticism. Crayola announced the name of a new blue crayon this week: “Bluetiful,” which beat out four other names with 40% of the vote ...

Eighty-five years before Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MacNolia Cox took the Bee by storm. She, along with Elizabeth Kenny, became the ...

Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. According to linguists: There was a time when there were no color-names as such . . . and that not ...