Take, for example, your iPhone or Android phone, which you might even be reading this with ... These new things have names that are just reused old words modified from even older words.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million ... putting their skills reading old documents to work. For her generation, “cursive was a coming-of-age part of ...

In an atmosphere rich in simple printed texts and in reading aloud, small children make a wondrous associative leap from knowing the alphabet to being able to read whole words. Their minds receive ...