Feb. 13 – To the Editor: On Feb. 13, 2021 at 3:50 p.m., what was once known as the Republican Party was officially pronounced dead. While the Republican Party had been suffering from various chronic ...

Students from G.A.R. Memorial Middle School in Wilkes-Barre talk about the proper pronunciation of the city’s name on Public Square on Wednesday. They said they learned about the history of the name ...

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph symbols 4,000 years ...

Learn how to correctly pronounce words with silent letters in English. Improve your pronunciation with these helpful tips!

I have lived in the Tri-Cities for more than 40 years. All my life I have heard Yakima pronounced YAK-uh-maw — where the “maw” rhymes with “paw.” Now, in the past few years, newscasters are ...

A reader recently sent me a question that got me thinking. She asked, “What are the guidelines that inform The Oregonian’s decision to help readers pronounce an unfamiliar name, or not?” I confessed I ...

Channel 4 weatherman Liam Dutton wowed the Internet by correctly pronouncing the name of the longest town in Europe on live TV during his forecast. We tried to do the same... and failed miserably.

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