Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — It’s no secret that Upstate New York is known for having difficult to pronounce names for its cities, towns, and even bodies of water. This isn’t a new conversation as I’ve ...

Texans are notorious for making their own language rules, so it’s no surprise that the pronunciation of our towns’ names is anyone’s guess. Like John Travolta reading a teleprompter or a former ...

This episode of Defining Safe covers the frequent mispronunciation of non-Western names. In this episode, we look into the phonetics of pronunciation and hear the perspective of students whose names ...

2023 was the year of mispronouncing names, from politicians and athletes to high-profile celebrities and fictional characters. People were also stumped by geological and astronomical phenomena this ...

Bogota, Pequannock, Haledon, Passaic and more towns can trip people up on how to say their names.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Ever wondered the proper way to say a city or town in Louisiana? Louisiana has unique names for its towns, cities, parishes and even rivers. Though a majority of the names ...