All Blog Posts
2025
- Writer Mythbusting: Why Longer Words Aren’t Always Better
- The words ‘many’ and ‘most’ and how they can erode reader trust
- Formatting tips for impactful, usable content
- What all writers can learn from Jane Austen
- Fact-checking tips for content writers
- Grammar mistakes and how to avoid them
- How can technology and readability help in palliative care?
- Worldbuilding as a creative writing pitfall
- How to actually “write what you know”
- 10 things copywriters can learn from Drayton Bird
- E-E-A-T: How your personal authority can boost your rankings in 2025
- Why video’s dominance in content strategy makes you MORE essential as a writer
- What can the present tense do for your creative writing?
- What are AI overviews and do they impact your SEO?
- Your 5 content and readability New Year’s Resolutions for 2025
2024
- A Literary Christmas: festive celebrations in literature
- Philanthrospeak: Authentic communication in the charity sector
- Ten Welsh words added to the Oxford English Dictionary
- How Dungeons & Dragons can make you a better writer
- John Mueller debunks misconceptions about website quality on LinkedIn
- When fanfics become bestsellers
- Lessons from Shirley Jackson about building suspense
- What Google’s latest Helpful Content update means for writers
- Demystifying AP Style: A guide to clarity and consistency
- How fanfiction can help you become a better writer
- Why the Romantasy genre reigns supreme on the book market
- Blurring the lines: what is Literary Nonfiction?
- English Grammar Day 2024
- “Like” why do we say it so much?
- The best book-to-film adaptations
- Is there an optimal window for language acquisition?
- Navigating professionalism in language: a guide
- Exploring the merits of lengthy celebrity memoirs
- How to use emotive language
- The unofficial English of Europe: what is ‘Euro English’?
- The fall of the semicolon: punctuation evolving
- Morphemes: the invisible building blocks of pop-cultural language
- The global efforts to preserve endangered languages
- New book explores the future of language
- New year, new you, new (and clear) writing
2023
- Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year reflects AI’s increasing influence
- The changing sounds of Britain: the decline of RP
- What copywriters can learn from David Ogilvy
- Half of the English language is of French origin
- Readable Grammar 101: What is the simple subject in grammar?
- Readability for all: the Adobe Readability Consortium
- How journaling can improve your writing skills
- Plain language without borders: the ISO standard is Language Neutral
- The ISO has published its Plain Language Standard
- Unravelling the science of reading comprehension
- Author Joanne Harris calls for more investment in libraries and the arts
- AI VS Editor: the future of readability
- Italy’s English ban: Why English is still the language of business
- Overcoming common objections to readability
- How to use emotive language to connect with your audience
- Readability in eCommerce
- The act of verbing a noun
- The impact of formal and complex language in government communications
- National Proofreading Day: celebrating the pedantic
- What are sensitivity readers?
- Will ChatGPT replace writers?
- New study shows font readability is very individual
2022
- How did ghost stories become an unlikely tradition?
- New Zealand passes plain language act
- What is E-A-T and why is it important for SEO?
- How to read more effectively as a writer
- Why is writing the most important marketing skill?
- Google announces Helpful Content update
- Be Kind to Writers and Editors Month
- Some of the greatest bestselling novels were initially rejected
- 2022 content marketing conference reveals most-hated jargon
- The history of the paperback
- 5 copywriting lessons from Mad Men’s Don Draper
- The best UK spots for literary tourism
- A lesson from Nabokov: how to write for the senses
- The greatest insults in Shakespeare
- Why Pfizer is using plain language
- Great podcasts to improve your writing skills
- Genuine VS toxic positivity in language: communicating with empathy
- Plain language history: Basic English
- The 5 most common words you sought synonyms for on Readable
- Readability in history: the Plain Writing Act
2021
- Words of advice from the most successful authors
- Imagism: a minimalist movement that changed poetry
- Coronavirus coverage – pandemic best practices for style
- 10 English words with surprising etymology
- Why should readability be a brand value in your business?
- Feminist placards: the language of protest
- Pandemic clichés and how to avoid them
- 10 British English phrases
- Readability in design: principles of usability
- Successful authors who started late
- Italian words that English really needs
- How has distance learning increased the need for readability?
- How to repurpose a document for the web
- Readable grammar 101: acronyms and initialisms
- Writing tips from authors who didn’t mince words
- How can financial services use readability to inspire trust?
- How to write with confidence
- The art of the carousel – Instagram readability in action
- World Book Day 2021 – Readable’s team picks
- A very Victorian guide to letter writing
- The science of swearing
- Joe Biden’s inauguration speech: full transcript and analysis
- Historical quotes on readability
2020
- Forgotten festive English words we need to use this season
- How to use buzzword and cliché detection to craft impactful content
- A transcript analysis of Joe Biden’s powerful victory speech
- Strategies for effective editing
- Natasha will help you make your content succeed
- Readable grammar 101: semicolons
- What is the average person’s reading level?
- Does UK COVID-19 advice contain too much jargon?
- How much is your time worth? Readability and money
- What are glue words and how do they affect readability?
- Study shows the accessibility of top websites needs work. How can we combat digital discrimination?
- Do spelling and grammar affect SEO?
- This is what an excellent cover letter looks like
- Readable grammar 101: That VS Which
- New entries in the OED: March 2020
- Readability and Coronavirus: scoring top-ranked advice
- What is the best sentence length for SEO?
- Readable grammar 101: A valentine edition
- Brexit. Clear as mud? Insight Agents investigate
- Readable grammar 101 – writing in the second person
- Readability is a key skill of the best-selling author. How do they do it?
- Readability for technical writers
- 5 content writing New Year’s Resolutions you should make
2019
- A year at Readable — Laura’s 2019 recap
- Boris Johnson wins ‘foot in mouth’ of the year and other Plain English award highlights
- 5 Shakespearean words we should use more often
- How to write a thank-you note
- How to explain the importance of readability to your team
- 5 grammar “rules” which aren’t real
- Are you scaring the general public away with poor reach?
- Examples of wordy sentences – and how to correct wordiness
- What’s new in October 2019? Introducing Reach
- How to write a persuasive job description
- How can we reduce workplace email despair?
- Plain language at PLAIN 2019: Readable goes to Oslo
- What are Laura’s key SEO takeaways from BrightonSEO 2019?
- UX and readability: a readable rebuttal
- What is NLG and how will it impact the future of search and content marketing?
- Top essay mistakes in academic writing – and how to avoid them
- Watch your tone – how to write content that connects
- 6 things I’ve learned from 6 months in customer success
- This is what happens when your brain recognizes fantastic readability
- Privacy policies are a disaster
- What’s new in May 2019?
- Are you using the active voice in your content?
- The Lensear Write readability formula
- What’s new in April 2019?
- Readability at the UN: why is speech clarity important?
- The Lix and Rix readability formulas
- Why is newspaper readability important?
- The Fry readability graph
- What’s new in March 2019?
- The IELTS test
- What can content writers learn from novelists?
- The Powers Sumner Kearl formula
- The Raygor readability graph
- The FORCAST readability formula
- The history of readability
- What’s new in February 2019?
- Are adverbs the enemy of powerful writing?
- 3 authors’ love letters to inspire you this Valentine’s Day
- Do Inuits really have 50 words for snow?
- ReadablePro 2019: leading the way in readability scoring
- News releases are bogged down by fuzzy language, jargon, and men
- Your readability questions answered
- Boost your email ROI by improving your readability
- 3 easy fixes to make your blogs more conversational
- The Spache readability formula
- The New Dale-Chall readability formula
- Make readability your #1 content marketing resolution for 2019
- The Automated Readability Index
- The SMOG readability index
2018
- Festive children’s books we love
- Joining the readable.io team
- British Forces think acronyms are FUBAR
- A step by step guide to improving readability
- SaaStock18: a wealth of learning and good craic
- 5 tips for writing a readable resume
- Behind the scenes: Why we do what we do
- Music to write to
- NHS doctors told to use ‘plain English’
- 10 content marketing hacks every business needs to know
- How to use readability as a social media tool
- How to swear like the old days
- Making sense of grammar – when nouns and verbs look alike
- Four words from German that English really needs
- Common word crimes and how to avoid them
- Reading in a crisis: readability of risk communication
- Unusual American town names
- Readable grammar 101: How to use there, their and they’re
- English grammar – commas and the complex sentence
- ReadablePro, your questions answered
- Introducing ReadablePro. A readability tool, with extra power.
- 8 ways to write content that converts
- Bad writing and poor readability are costing your business money
- 4 words or phrases from French that English really needs
- 4 English words with Spanish origins
- Does readability matter?
- The 12 essential elements of high quality content
- Hip-hop ain’t top: new study reveals reading levels behind music lyrics
- Approved by the UK Government
- What is readable content marketing and why do you need it?
- Four more words from Japanese that English really needs
- Commas are absolutely awesome, but so misunderstood
- CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
- Joining the readability movement
2017
- A murder of crows and other odd collective nouns
- Creating readability formulas for non-English languages: the problem of the syllable
- Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin: the benefits of reading to children
- Four words we lost that English really needs
- GDPR: make your privacy notices readable – it’s the law
- 5 English words we should use more often
- Have you read the terms and conditions? The readability of insurance policies
- ReadableBot: the Readable indexer
- Proofreading with Readable – 7 strategies to instantly improve readability and write content that converts
- Insurance companies should provide readable policies
- What are reading level calculators?
- How to correctly use ‘per se’
- What is readability?
- Top four metaphors of everyday English
- 4 tips to making your newsletter readable
- Why the readability of your newsletter is important for everyone
- Improve the readability of your writing in 60 seconds
- The Coleman-Liau Index
- How to choose the right readability formula
- The five lost letters of the English language
- Readability and the Gunning Fog Index
- Death by (poor) readability
- Mistakes were made: understanding passive voice
- We support read aloud
- Inspire your way out of writer’s block
- The importance of readability of user generated content
- The Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
