A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to review the tape of a podcast before it aired, and I heard myself describe a word’s “fun, mischievous connotations.” That would be the standard spelling. Given ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

As languages change, so do pronunciations. This list from our friends at Vocabulary.com contains 10 words that have gone through relatively recent shifts in pronunciation or whose spelling is a ...