Food has a funny way of travelling across borders faster than pronunciation does. We happily order sushi, sip lattes, spread ...

A Speyside distillery, village and hotel share the name Craigellachie, meaning “rocky hill”. Perched above the confluence of the Spey and Fiddich, the area exemplifies Scotland’s obsession with ...

English pronunciation is chaotic for a reason. Words come from multiple languages stitched together over centuries. Spelling froze while pronunciation kept changing. Regional accents hardened into ...

Apple Music iOS 26 introduces Lyrics Translation and Pronunciation features, helping users sing along and understand foreign-language songs with line-by-line translations and phonetic guides.

Given certain conditions having to do with word stress and the other sounds in a word, we simply do not like to have two r’s so close to each other. The name for the linguistic process where one sound ...