Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nothing's worse than confidently saying a word for years only to discover you've been pronouncing it wrong the entire time.

Have you ever stumbled over the name of a favorite dish, drink or ingredient? You're not alone! Many foods and drinks have names that can trip up even the most confident speakers, and some of these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English is anything but easy, so never mind trying to pronounce words that read as if someone were trying to play Scrabble for the ...

PIT-oh-mee" or "hyper-bowl" instead of "hy-PER-buh-lee," you're revealing something fascinating about how your brain acquired ...

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 Americans struggling with pronunciations. That’s put both ...

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If certain words can be said to be the most wrongly pronounced in English, they may be those that end with ‘ally’. Especially in this part of the world, almost everyone keeps mispronouncing them due ...

Much to their dislike, U.S. citizens have on a number of occasions been stereotyped as "less intelligent" and "less cultured" than Western Europeans. The latter's jibes often take the same shape and ...

English pronunciation is chaotic for a reason. Words come from multiple languages stitched together over centuries. Spelling froze while pronunciation kept changing. Regional accents hardened into ...