It is probably not a big surprise to learn that listeners often hear certain words or accents as indicating someone’s ...

I know it's bad for me, but one of the first things I do in the morning is reach for my phone. Between social media mentions and work notifications, I simply like starting the day with a bit of ...

George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other voice actors had to be persuaded, but a new PBS documentary (mostly) leads by example in stressing the first syllable.

Actor Chris Pratt, who voices Mario in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, has revealed what he says is the correct way to ...

In a dimly lit beauty salon in northwest Paris, WordsofAzia is seated with a bright smile across her face. A beautician ...

With the war in Iran a topic on everyone’s lips, you might have noticed an inconsistency in the way that nation’s name is ...

Hidden code in Google Translate points to a pronunciation coach that could score speech, offer feedback, and deepen the app’s ...

A small difference in the way a vowel is pronounced can suggest a lot more about political ideology than one might imagine ...

Running back Travis Etienne is back in his home state of Louisiana after signing with the Saints this week and he’d like to get back to the original pronunciation of his last name as well. Etienne ...

Few words in English capture as much joy and curiosity as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Long, playful and musical in sound, the word is widely recognised even ...

Language has an incredible ability to encapsulate human attributes in a single word. Among them is a word ‘perspicacity’ which stands as an example for such linguistic decoding of human attributes as ...