Jayden Jiang, a student at Girard Academic Music Program, hopes to build on his experience in 2024, when he was a ...

In French, the "r" sound comes from the throat and I found the best practice was repeating the word "très" (very). For Spanish, rolling the "r" is done with the tongue, and can be practiced using the ...

Pilots and air traffic controllers saying "tree," "fife," and "niner" instead of three, five, and nine. What is that about?

The only thing close to a silent letter combination is GN, which is a sort of nyee sound for which there’s no real equivalent ...

On phonetic grounds, a case can be made for either pronunciation ... We started to use 'g' in the French way, while another letter (the insular g) took over spelling for the other sounds, before ...

An attempt to uncover why the primary antagonist of SAKAMOTO DAYS is referred to as "X", and why that is pronounced "Slur".

Grammarians love to grumble about texting and social media, convinced that every “u” instead of “you,” every “tho” or “luv,” ...

In Enough is Enuf, writer Gabe Henry wittily and engagingly confronts all of these questions head-on and arrives at a ...

SA marks 100 years of Afrikaans as an official language, celebrating its unique development from Dutch roots into a diverse ...

Ideal really, since Gen-Z is its own shibboleth, a language test to betray your true colours, if not your age. Since those in ...

The main reason English has so many silent letters is that many words are borrowed. Words borrowed from Latin, Greek, French, ...

The North Jersey native's stage name is commonly mispronounced as "S-Z-A," saying each letter separately, or "Sizza." Per Mondly, the correct pronunciation is "SIZ-uh." Despite this French pastry ...