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Struggling with mispronounced words? You aren’t alone. English is a complicated language—it even confounds experts. Not only are some pronunciations nonintuitive, but words aren’t always pronounced ...

TV Newscasters work hard to speak clearly and enunciate words accurately. Words that don’t originate in the English language can become a challenge, like Qatar or Gaddafi , Kadafi, Qaddafi? But native ...

When referring to a place where you keep your socks (as opposed to the word that refers to someone who draws, say, with a crayon), most Americans pronounce it as a single syllable that ends in the r ...

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TV Newscasters work hard to speak clearly and enunciate words accurately. Words that don't originate in the English language can become a challenge, like Qatar or Gaddafi , Kadafi, Qaddafi? But native ...