But how can you understand words without vowels? Your brain does not read words letter by letter, experts told Live Science. Instead, it looks for patterns, considers context then makes predictions.

How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication. Vowel-less words, like srsly, thx, k, ...

If you spend enough time online, you're bound to come come across a sentence like this: "Yr brn cn rd wrds wtht vwls." It looks like nonsense at first glance, but after a moment, you probably read it ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

The word "facetious" is one of my favorite words. It contains all of the vowels, in alphabetic order. If you make it an adverb ("facetiously") then you get the sometimes-vowel "y" to boot. I believe ...