An analysis by language learning website Preply found that Massachusetts was the fifth hardest name for Americans to say correctly. It was also the fifth hardest state name to spell. The study found ...

Man holding a menu at a restaurant table with a glass of red wine and water - Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock We've all been there, stumbling over words like "giardiniera ...

Açaí berries are delicious. They're also hard to pronounce. | Camilia Neves Rodrigues da Silva, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 The açaí berry is found on açaí palm trees in South American ...

While speaking to press about fertility treatments, Donald Trump struggled to pronounce the fertility medicine Pergoveris, then jokingly asked why it couldn't have a 'nice, simple name.' ‘Adult female ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

The record holder for having the world's longest name says it takes a whopping 20 minutes to read his full moniker aloud – and he's only ever heard it once. For ease, Laurence tends to go by just his ...

Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler produced a historic display on Thursday night, but radio host Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo was still unable to pronounce his name correctly the following day. The rookie ...

Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has captured global attention for her fearless pursuit of democracy. Yet, as her name dominates ...

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 ...

John addresses this letter to Gaius, a wealthy Christian in one of the communities under John's care. 3 John is one of two NT letters that are written to specific person (the other is Philemon). It ...

Every Springbok fan knows exactly who Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu is, but can they all (especially the white folk, including the author of this piece) pronounce his name? SFM, as he’s affectionately ...

This was the humorous remark of some Filipinos after Eraserheads vocalist Ely Buendia responded to comments made by podcasters Baus Rufo and Macoy Dubs regarding the pronunciation of his surname. In ...