Before the games began, athletes recorded the proper pronunciation of their names. Now, visitors to the official Olympics ...

Gabourey Sidibe clarified how to pronounce her first and last name after admitting fans have been saying it wrong for years.

Georgie Of course, as we heard from Anna at the start of the programme, there are times when people don't understand a particular accent, which can be frustrating. Jennifer says that you can avoid ...

Say what? "I've gotten a varying amount of butcherings on it," says Philadelphia's Shayne Gostisbehere of the many mispronunciations of his surname. "They put a 'Berry' in there. The Ghost. It's been ...

How has the pronunciation of Greek, one of the world's oldest languages still spoken today, changed over time?

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 ...

What's the correct way for U.S. journalists to call a foreign city — by its English name if it has one, like Rome, Damascus or Mexico City, or by its name in the local language? It's a question ...