The 2024 report analyzing Google Trends found that Americans searched "how to pronounce" various words starting in January 2025 through October, revealing that many Americans can't seem to pronounce a ...

Language is a beautiful, but complicated thing. A word can start out one way in one place, but by the time it gets spread across the world, it's become an entirely different thing. In other words, you ...

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 ...

At One Point Or Another, You May Find Yourself Humbled. So, it turns out that no one may be safe in this enlightening reality check of an AskReddit thread that has people angrily expressing their ...

When referring to a place where you keep your socks (as opposed to the word that refers to someone who draws, say, with a crayon), most Americans pronounce it as a single syllable that ends in the r ...

Sorry to break it to you, but ‘mischievous’ isn’t “miss-CHEE-vee-uss,” and ‘boatswain’ isn’t “BOAT-swain.” We’re breaking it all down in the latest episode of The List Show on YouTube. Why it’s so ...

Sometimes being right makes you sound so stupid. The new book, “You’re Saying it Wrong” by brother/sister duo Ross and Kathryn Petras, presents 150 words that are commonly mispronounced — and some of ...

Test your English pronunciation! See if you're pronouncing these common words correctly. Improve your language skills with this quick challenge! Donald Trump seeks court order against own DOJ to block ...

When Steve Pitts was first asked to pronounce the words at a Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Regional Spelling Bee, he said his initial response to A-J marketing director Julia Childs was, “No, you’ve got ...

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