A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to review the tape of a podcast before it aired, and I heard myself describe a word’s “fun, mischievous connotations.” That would be the standard spelling. Given ...

Join Janice Petersen to understand stress patterns and hear the difference between numbers ending in -teen or -ty. These minipods are a fun and simple way to improve your pronunciation. Learning ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

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People think that, because I write about grammar, I must have grown up in one of those we-value-education families, probably in a good school district. Nope. I dropped out without finishing the ninth ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CARMEL, Ind. – Do you pronounce it “kar-muhl ...

As languages change, so do pronunciations. This list from our friends at Vocabulary.com contains 10 words that have gone through relatively recent shifts in pronunciation or whose spelling is a ...

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