Miami University has added a new resource to promote and sustain an inclusive community: NameCoach, which provides accurate audio pronunciation of names. “This is a major move to create more inclusion ...

When writing English we use the 26 letters of the alphabet. However, when speaking there are roughly 44 different sounds in English. If you're concentrating on the sounds of English, you need 44 ...

many languages in the world, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is defined to describe the pronunciation of every language in the world. In the ' IPA Chart ', you can hear the actual ...

LinkedIn profiles can now include audio recordings of users saying their own names to assist others with proper pronunciation. When a name pronunciation recording is uploaded to someone’s profile, a ...

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 ...

Germans have difficulty pronouncing the sound ‘th’ correctly. A few years ago, a German couple went to London. At the airport, an immigration official asked the gentleman how old he was. The man while ...

Slack has added a new feature that allows each user to put their audio name pronunciation on the profile, The Verge reports. When you’re working remotely, most communications are through email or ...

Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...

It’s a regular day in our lives. As non-native English speakers, we’re reading a new Shashi Tharoor tweet and we don’t understand what he means by it. Take for example, ‘farrago’. (Did you really know ...