Mispronouncing words, a generous friend of mine recently reminded me, isn’t necessarily a sign of dilettantism. It just means you often learn new words through reading rather than hearing. The ...

English isn’t the easiest language to learn. It has lots of words that are spelled nothing like the way they’re pronounced–take “colonel” or “neighbor” for example. This can make it difficult to learn ...

Have you come across brand names that you find challenging to pronounce? Well, you’re not alone since several well-known brands have non-English speaking origins. As our language backgrounds and ...

Graduation time is here and that means those folks who read names at graduation ceremonies are busy practicing. MIT takes pronunciation very seriously — but they'll still get some of them wrong. On ...