Another day, another pronunciation scandal for Jeopardy! Eagle-eyed watchers are always quick to pounce on both the hosts or the contestants for seemingly flubbing a word, but this time around, fans ...
A few years ago when nobody had really heard of Asus, the folks who had just kind of assumed the company name was pronounced AY-suss. It turned out we were wrong, and company officials told us a few ...
The English language is tricky enough without all those U.S. town and city names that aren't even derived from English. Before you butcher another pronunciation, this handy guide will show you how to ...
Call it “reader’s ear.” Sometimes, it’s a tin ear. Reader’s ear is an affliction suffered by those of us who gather most of our information by reading, as opposed to listening. We may see a word in ...
Sophie Turner, aka Sansa on Game of Thrones, recently doled out a much-needed reality check to the Twitterverse on an important topic: Apparently, tons of people have no idea how to correctly ...
Some pronunciation shifts are squarely on my radar. For example, I feel like I am hearing more and more people pronounce the noun program with a schwa in the second syllable. For me, the second ...