Whether you’re planning your next vacation, preparing to move overseas, or just about to put your “learn French” resolution ...
PeopleWin reports on eight American cities often mispronounced, highlighting local quirks relating to dialects and cultural ...
Concern is growing over the future of a proposed trade deal between the European Union and the four-nation South American trade bloc of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, known as Mercosur, ...
The international Simpsons family just lost its Montreal matriarch.On Tuesday, the family of distinguished movie, theater and television actress Béatrice Picard announced that the Member of the Order ...
Once upon a time, I was asked at the place where I work part time to create a pronunciation guide to some common words.
A lot of these words come from different languages and so we have to adapt to a sound that we’ve never made before,” Babbel ...
The language-learning company Babbel and closed-captioning company The Captioning Group on Thursday released a list of the words that news anchors, politicians and other public figures in the U.S.
Americans are turning to Google in record numbers to figure out how to say the trickiest words in English, and the results reveal a lot about culture, curiosity and maybe a touch of culinary confusion ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — From “gyro” to “Worcestershire sauce,” Americans have a long list of words that trip them up, according to a new nationwide analysis of Google search trends. Experts at ...
This project aims to provide a series of dictionaries consisting of wordlists with accompanying phonemic pronunciation information in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription for as many ...
The study found that Montpelier is the most difficult town name to pronounce in Vermont. The hardest state name for Americans to pronounce is Arkansas. According to the website, Vermont residents most ...
As a radio news reporter, I get asked a lot of questions about how we make the news — how we gather sound, track the audio and get it on air at the right time. The proverbial sausage-making. So I wasn ...