14 Words Americans Say With Total Confidence—And Still Get Wrong

The 2024 report analyzing Google Trends found that Americans searched "how to pronounce" various words starting in January ...
Reader's Digest

Here’s the Correct “Caribbean” Pronunciation—Do You Say It Right?

You've probably heard the Caribbean pronunciation in two distinct ways. We asked a language expert and a local to settle the debate once and for all. To find out, we talked to language coach Sara ...
Newsweek

You Are 100 Percent Wrong About the Pronunciation of ‘GIF’

As this is an argument about the underpinnings of the English language, let me be frank—the acronym derived from the word "Graphic Interchange Format" is pronounced with a hard G, "GIF," like ...
NPR

Kyiv or Kiev? Why people disagree about how to pronounce the Ukrainian capital's name

What's the correct way for U.S. journalists to call a foreign city — by its English name if it has one, like Rome, Damascus or Mexico City, or by its name in the local language? It's a question ...
scmp.com

Pronunciation errors: do they point to a decline in Hong Kong’s English standards?

Concerns over perceived falling English standards are not new in the city, but when a recent survey revealed that one in two Hongkongers mispronounced 10 out of 10 commonly used words, it set alarm ...