If you sometimes find yourself happening upon a word you’ve no idea how to pronounce, a new feature announced by Google this week is here to help. Baked right into its Search tool, all you do is type ...

Paczki” is Ohio’s most mispronounced word and ranks ninth on the 2025 national list alongside gyro, Worcestershire and acai, ...

Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

TV Newscasters work hard to speak clearly and enunciate words accurately. Words that don't originate in the English language can become a challenge, like Qatar or Gaddafi , Kadafi, Qaddafi? But native ...

What's in a name? It's a question evoked by 16th century playwrights and mascot reformists alike. And when it comes to the names of many places in Kansas, the state's history provides some compelling ...

Humans had been using language for a very long time before writing was invented, so this isn’t really surprising. We have evolved to remember sounds, not letters. But the funny thing is that we only ...

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