This article attempts to address the challenge of mother tongue influence on English pronunciation, to briefly explain the linguistic reasons, and to demonstrate how Linguistics provide solutions for ...

Have you ever wondered why English spelling often seems to defy logic — like why choir and liar rhyme, but laughter and ...

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

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

Author Gabe Henry explores the strange history of spelling reform at Nerd Nite Hudson Valley in Beacon on August 18, with ...

A man has created a new London Underground map where all the station names have been changed to be spelt phonetically - and ...

Henry is the author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell Detroit ... in a declaration of phonetic revolt, “Enough is enuf”? Many, in fact.

Casagrande tackles the varied pronunciations of words that are considered accurate by linguists because, even if they sound wrong, so many people use them.

Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable. Japanese has five vowels: a, i, u, e, o. And it has nine consonants. In Japanese, each vowel by itself and a set of a ...