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 ...

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 ...

Admitting to pronunciation mistakes is cathartic. Well, once you know the correct way to say the word, it is. Readers sent some funny confessions. One reader used a kid’s logic in pronouncing “nostril ...

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Language is more than what we say: It’s how we say it. Across the country, the same word can sound entirely different depending on where it’s spoken. These subtle shifts (vowel bends, dropped Rs, ...

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