Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

We’ve all been there. You’re in a conversation when suddenly you have to say a word that, despite your best efforts, just won't come out right. These words might trip you up, but take comfort in ...

English is a tricky language to learn. Native speakers may take this for granted, failing to realize how intricate-and inconsistent-many of its pronunciation rules are. For instance, why do heart, ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ELSA, a Silicon Valley-based company that uses speech recognition technology and artificial intelligence to help language learners improve their English pronunciation, ...

If you sometimes find yourself happening upon a word you’ve no idea how to pronounce, a new feature announced by Google this week is here to help. Baked right into its Search tool, all you do is type ...

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The new “question-of-the-week” is: What should I do to make my English Language Learners want to learn good pronunciation? And how do I correct students’ pronunciation without hurting their feeling or ...

As this is an argument about the underpinnings of the English language, let me be frank—the acronym derived from the word "Graphic Interchange Format" is pronounced with a hard G, "GIF," like ...