All together now! EL E PHANT ... Decoding is working out how to pronounce new words. Inspector Wordsmart likes to investigate words. And when she comes across words that she hasn’t seen before ...

Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long ...

But do you know how to pronounce victuals ... terms whose spelling leaves room for confusion. Some words lend themselves to oral errors simply because they remind us of other (often more common ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Ever wondered the proper way to say a city or town in Louisiana? Louisiana has unique names for its towns, cities, parishes and even rivers. Though a majority of the ...

In all, participants heard 15 speakers pronounce words like "pass," "food" and "pen." Participants rated each speaker on a scale from "not at all accented" to "very accented." Although the ...