Laurence Watkins, 60, only uses his first and last names - but his full name is actually much longer and includes some words ...

Marriott may be one of the most successful hotel chains in the world - but, according to the chairman, everyone's been pronouncing its name wrong this whole time. David Marriott, whose grandfather JW ...

Scroll down to find out what Georgia finds "frustrating" about living in Spain A YOUNG woman has revealed that she ditched the UK and moved to Spain. While Georgia loves her life in Málaga, a Spanish ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Bilal says he understands several languages, but his parents often have to translate for him as he struggles to chip in. "I ...

She also got candid on the shopping in SpainCredit: Getty Since leaving her life in the UK, not only can people not pronounce her name, but she also got candid on something she finds highly ...

Because the bride's parents and other family members from China don't speak English, everyone was "extremely touched" by the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

This year, fully licensed amateur productions have been performed in the UK for the first time ... Kretzmer’s archive, ...

Sometimes we contract groups of words to make them shorter and to make the sentence more efficient. For example 'I am' becomes 'I'm'. They can help us speak a bit faster and more fluently. Conditional ...

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...

Local residents and councillors have launched a last-minute legal bid to stop a historic library being converted into a ...