Amol Rajan took over from Jeremy Paxman as the host of University Challenge last year - BBC Amol Rajan has promised to change the way he pronounces the letter H after viewers of University Challenge ...

A reader recently sent me a question that got me thinking. She asked, “What are the guidelines that inform The Oregonian’s decision to help readers pronounce an unfamiliar name, or not?” I confessed I ...

People who speak languages other than English are sometimes impressed by how well I and other linguists pronounce words or names in their language, even if we don’t speak a word of it. But it’s not ...

Many first-year Russian students may struggle to properly pronounce the letter Ы, which makes a hard-i sound and is usually transliterated into English as y, but could the letter be responsible for ...