Two ways of pronouncing and spelling the historic town of Lahaina have circulated on social media and in news reports since a devastating August wildfire killed 97 people. We asked Hawaiian language ...

In celebration of National Dictionary Day on October 16, we tried our best to pronounce some of the most commonly mispronounced words in the English language, according to Dictionary.com. Much to our ...

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 ...

Much to their dislike, U.S. citizens have on a number of occasions been stereotyped as "less intelligent" and "less cultured" than Western Europeans. The latter's jibes often take the same shape and ...

Yes, you’re tempted to transpose the two middle letters, making it Tori. Or to say, “troo-ee.” Or to assume it’s the same as the French word for three, “twa.” But it is pronounced as if it ended in a ...

Google today unveiled an experimental search feature that can tutor you on how to pronounce tricky words. Previously, when you searched for something on Google, you could play an audio and hear how ...

Sophie Turner, aka Sansa on Game of Thrones, recently doled out a much-needed reality check to the Twitterverse on an important topic: Apparently, tons of people have no idea how to correctly ...

As this is an argument about the underpinnings of the English language, let me be frank—the acronym derived from the word "Graphic Interchange Format" is pronounced with a hard G, "GIF," like ...

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LinkedIn profiles can now include audio recordings of users saying their own names to assist others with proper pronunciation. When a name pronunciation recording is uploaded to someone’s profile, a ...