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(CBS) - It's always embarrassing when you don't know how to pronounce a certain word. Maybe you've read the word before but never had to say it out loud. Maybe you've only heard the word once and are ...

Although English spelling is famously weird, there are at least some words that anyone learning English will easily get right — words like black, board, boat, clap, coat, cup, and hand. But put cup ...

How do you pronounce each of the following words? And is there another correct way to pronounce them? adult, address, almond, amen, arctic, aunt, banal, Caribbean ...

It was 2013. I was on a panel (I don’t remember where) talking about something (I don’t remember what). To articulate the point I intended to make, I wanted to use the word “zeitgeist.” It’s a word ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — We’ve all gotten tongue-tied by a hard-to-pronounce word at some point in our lives — but which word do Virginians find particularly challenging? Researchers with ...

Have you ever thought about your pronunciation of the word “no”? If you say it out loud now, can you sense the movement of your tongue and lips as you form the “o” sound? You may notice there’s a lot ...