In an era of rapid-fire ‘Thx’ and automated email replies, let's look back at a word that carries the weight of genuine appreciation.
All the way back from a long three month stint of posting on Instagram as much as a paid influencer, your favorite student who spent a semester abroad in France is back and better at correcting ...
It’s true. A study published by The Public Library of Science, a nonprofit publisher of open-access academic journals, found that learning a language improves attention span and memory retention.
How do you say thank you in different languages? Explore how gratitude is expressed worldwide, its linguistic origins, ...
Words with the letters 'ed' at the end are usually regular past tense verbs like 'started' or adjectives like ‘confused’. The pronunciation of 'ed' can change depending on which sound comes before it ...
If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...
OP-ED. Today's middle powers are reshaping their alliances to confront Donald Trump's United States, much as the Sicilian ...
In 1949, France assembled an elaborate gift to thank the United States for its support during World War II. It was known as the “Merci Train,” a locomotive with 49 small boxcars—one for each state at ...
Abstract: In the field of expressive speech synthesis, a lot of work has been conducted on suprasegmental prosodic features while few has been done on pronunciation variants. However, prosody is ...
This project aims to provide a series of dictionaries consisting of wordlists with accompanying phonemic pronunciation information in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription for as many ...