American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. The idea first appeared in mainstream culture in 1937, when George and Ira ...

Most people will tell you that the most difficult thing about learning Japanese is dealing with kanji, the written characters originally imported from China. Not only are there more than 2,100 general ...

I now live and work in a country where it is common, according to the pronunciation rules of the local language, to mispronounce my name. I find myself frequently correcting people, at least when the ...