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Column: Pronunciation and spelling are still important

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 ...
DIGIT (40A) is the word for a [Finger or toe]. But it’s also, [when read as two words, what you can do to the ends of 17- and 62-Across and 10- and 34-Down]. Here’s where that hard G comes in: DIG IT.
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.
NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Esteban Touma, language expert from the app Babbel about 2025's most mispronounced words.
From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year's news also left some ...
"Weird Al" Yankovic joined The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night to correct the pronunciation of his last name ...
From Zohran Mamdani’s election to a jewel heist at the Louvre, this year’s news left many Americans stumbling over ...