You might feel silly saying it, but croissant is not pronounced "KROY-sant," "cross-ANT," or "KRUH-sant" it's pronounced ...

Attendance review board can be useful This is in reference to the column by Edmund Perea, "There is hope, addressing youth crime." I was raised in New Mexico, lived in California 30 years. I was a ...

We're in the midst of our spring campaign, and we have until April 27 to raise $15,000. These funds directly support the ...

The American Language Program’s Winter Conference focused on how use of the English language is evolving and its effects on ...

We can also pronounce the letter 't' as a glottal ... be pronounced as a small /d/ in some accents, especially in American English. This sound is sometimes called a flap. It can come between ...

How can you use natural pauses in English? Pauses and the flow of speech are very important for sounding natural when speaking. By pause we mean a complete gap between words, or just a slowing ...

If you’ve been abroad, you know not everyone appreciates the loud and proud American spirit. If you’ve witnessed eye-rolls or ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

Of the many words in Philippine English that made it to the Oxford English Dictionary, nothing has probably received as much ...

"Golf taught me that you don’t need to speak the same language to understand each other. You just need to care about the same things." ...

We're getting married, but neither wants to keep our last names. We're considering creating a new one together, but unsure if ...