The minute I open my mouth, it’s clear that I’m from New York (Brooklyn, to be exact). And though my high school speech teachers did their best to beat the accent out of me—and I do tamp it down—it’s ...

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 ...

OK, I'm "succinct." Now how do you say me? I did a little poll about this on Twitter and the results were interesting. Of 416 respondents, 55% said they pronounce it like "sus-sinct" (or "suh-sinct"), ...

The word Caribbean probably conjures images of beautiful tropical islands with turquoise water and picture-perfect beaches. But what about the word itself? Like most of us, you’ve probably heard it ...

This dictionary was prepared primarily for use by personnel in WOI Radio at Iowa State University as a computerized database for printing "pronouncers" to be pasted alongside the words to be ...