Politics can predict the TV shows we watch, the shops we frequent and the places we live. But what about the way we speak? In a recent study, I was able to show how your political orientation can ...

Even the most worldly people sometimes come across words they aren't sure how to pronounce. It's a state of not-knowing that is fraught with anxiety and insecurity. No one wants to be caught out in an ...

Although English spelling is famously weird, there are at least some words that anyone learning English will easily get right — words like black, board, boat, clap, coat, cup, and hand. But put cup ...

How do you pronounce it: Tomato, potato and 12 words with dual pronunciations How do you say it? You say toe-may-toe and I say toe-mah-toe – but which one is right? There are dozens of words in the ...

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 ...

If you sometimes find yourself happening upon a word you’ve no idea how to pronounce, a new feature announced by Google this week is here to help. Baked right into its Search tool, all you do is type ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...