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Take a look at the following English words: butcher, squirrel, mortgage, and choir. Does something seem off about them? At one point in time, the words move and love rhymed. So did blood, good, and ...

This Pronunciation Guide intends to clarify the correct pronunciation for various game-related terms and names for which there is often confusion and/or dissent. The spelling of Asura can often lead ...

For those who make their living talking about hockey players -- on radio, on podcasts, on television -- there's often a moment of truth. You're racing toward the point where you have to say a hockey ...

An occasional guide to the words and names in the news from Martha Figueroa-Clark of the BBC Pronunciation Unit. It's that time again when European nations compete to be crowned winners of the Uefa ...

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The English language is notorious for complex spelling rules—and the many words that break them. We all know i comes before e, except, of course, in certain weird words like, well, weird. We pronounce ...

James Harbeck investigates why the English language became so hard to spell – and why we only have ourselves to blame. You may have seen a poem by Gerard Nolst Trinité called The Chaos. It starts like ...