English pronunciation is chaotic for a reason. Words come from multiple languages stitched together over centuries. Spelling froze while pronunciation kept changing. Regional accents hardened into ...

If you find yourself stumbling to say sentences like “pass the Worcestershire sauce” or “she found her niche” you’re not alone. To determine which words Americans struggle the most to pronounce, the ...

Everyone keeps telling you that you should be a writer and that you’re an ace at literature. It gets to your head. You start believing your own hype. And that’s the moment that somebody tells you that ...

It was more for buffoonery than intellect that Iddi Amin, a one-time president of Uganda, was known. At the height of his tyrannical rule, Amin gave the edict that all Asians must leave Uganda. Those ...

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From “gyro” to “Worcestershire sauce,” Americans have a long list of words that trip them up, according to a new nationwide analysis of Google search trends. Experts at Unscramblerer.com examined ...

Thousands of South Africans turned to Google this year to avoid embarrassing mispronunciations — from French pastries and tricky English spellings to international names that leave even the most ...