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Left, right, center — everyone is using it. How stand-up has all but killed a controversial term’s taboo.
Explore how the UAE is leveraging artificial intelligence to preserve and modernize the Arabic language, creating the largest ...
I would PAY to learn the truth behind the making of the banned Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire movie Don's Plum.
Food names from around the world can be tricky to pronounce, especially when they come from languages with different sounds ...
Regional English accents are dying out because children are picking up American phrases from TikTok, Netflix and Disney, ...
Understanding the difference between British and American English can save ESL learners from confusion. These two styles may seem similar, but small changes in spelling, vocabulary, and ...
However, when prompted about speakers of African American English, large language models spit out negative stereotypes similar to—or even worse than—attitudes held in the 1930s.
Jacques Bailly, a past Scripps National Spelling Bee winner, has served as the head pronouncer for decades. He picked 10 words for The Washington Post’s quiz.
This study focuses on a corpus assembled from commercial recordings of 1929 and 1932 featuring the two British linguists J. R. Firth (1890–1960) and Daniel Jones (1881–1967). The aim is to analyse and ...
The letter 't' can also be pronounced as a small /d/ in some accents, especially in American English. This sound is sometimes called a flap.
Who says “American Idol” can’t be educational? Sunday night’s episode taught the nation to pronounce “Oneonta.” The teachable moment came early in the two-hour audition episode, just ...