In public radio we do our utmost to get things right, including the pronunciation of names and places. It shows we know our stuff and conveys respect — for the people we report about and the people ...

If you ever traveled around the world and stayed for long enough to get caught in the new country’s culture and language, you most probably know how hard it is to get the foreign names right. Whether ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few things are more painful than listening to an out-of-towner stumble over the pronunciation of “Matunuck” or hearing someone ...

The simplest thing to do if there's any doubt about how to say someone's name, of course, is to ask that person to say it for you. What if he or she isn't alive? The best sources include: - Tape or ...

We’ve all been faced with a name that’s difficult to pronounce. But not everyone considers the consequences of their mispronunciations. In a piece for Fast Company, Madhumita Mallick, the head of ...

Yes, you’re tempted to transpose the two middle letters, making it Tori. Or to say, “troo-ee.” Or to assume it’s the same as the French word for three, “twa.” But it is pronounced as if it ended in a ...

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems to me that Texans pronounce words differently than many others. When I look at an unfamiliar word, I pronounce it, at least in my mind, as it appears, syllable by ...

Navigating the world as the parent of a child with a unique or difficult-to-pronounce name can be a constant source of frustration. When I named my daughter Chiara, I never considered that people ...

Boy, am I red-faced. All these years I’ve been pronouncing clematis, the popular purple-flowered vine, as klem-MATT-us, when the preferred way nationally is KLEM-uh-tiss, with strong stress on the ...