Food has a funny way of travelling across borders faster than pronunciation does. We happily order sushi, sip lattes, spread pesto on toast, and debate croissants with great passion, often without ...

Georgie Of course, as we heard from Anna at the start of the programme, there are times when people don't understand a ...

English pronunciation is chaotic for a reason. Words come from multiple languages stitched together over centuries. Spelling froze while pronunciation kept changing. Regional accents hardened into ...

Word of the Day: Quiddity meaning is the essential nature of something. It answers the question, what makes a thing what it is. Quiddity pronunciation is KWID-ih-tee. The word comes from Latin ...

I subscribe to an online page that talks about word trivia. I mainly do it for the daily vocabulary tests. At least once a ...

PIT-oh-mee" or "hyper-bowl" instead of "hy-PER-buh-lee," you're revealing something fascinating about how your brain acquired ...

That “schtick”, of course, is the point. Uncle Roger speaks English with a heavily accented Chinese-Malaysian inflection, peppering sentences with “fuiyoh” and “haiyaa”, and bending grammar into ...

Musician Philip Halloun records 'I love you' in 521 languages as a heartfelt birthday gift and world record for his son ...

Famously, the January transfer window is the more difficult of the two to operate in. It's hard to persuade other clubs to give up assets mid-season, sometimes even harder to convince players that ...

Gabourey Sidibe clarified how to pronounce her first and last name after admitting fans have been saying it wrong for years.

This is the eighth of eight voiced consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the eighth of eight voiceless consonant programmes in our series of videos ...