In public radio we do our utmost to get things right, including the pronunciation of names and places. It shows we know our stuff and conveys respect — for the people we report about and the people ...

Few things are more painful than listening to an out-of-towner stumble over the pronunciation of “Matunuck” or hearing someone bring up “East Green-witch.” Rhode Island has more than its fair share of ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misidentified the school system Keshav Malani attended in California. He was enrolled in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. After immigrating to ...

We’ve all been faced with a name that’s difficult to pronounce. But not everyone considers the consequences of their mispronunciations. In a piece for Fast Company, Madhumita Mallick, the head of ...

Yes, you’re tempted to transpose the two middle letters, making it Tori. Or to say, “troo-ee.” Or to assume it’s the same as the French word for three, “twa.” But it is pronounced as if it ended in a ...

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems to me that Texans pronounce words differently than many others. When I look at an unfamiliar word, I pronounce it, at least in my mind, as it appears, syllable by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a ...

Navigating the world as the parent of a child with a unique or difficult-to-pronounce name can be a constant source of frustration. When I named my daughter Chiara, I never considered that people ...