What's the best word ever? Blogger Ted McCagg has been positing his own picks for the last few months in a March Madness style competition of sorts.

Among the thousands of words in the English language, how do you go about choosing the best word ever? One blogger creates a single-elimination word battle, using NCAA-style tournament brackets.

Some words can be pronounced with two different ... There are three processes that result in syllabically ambiguous words. 1. Diphthongs, r’s, and l’s. One or Two Syllables: fire, tire, hour ...

The best word ever -- according to deep lexicographical research, science, taste, and common sense -- is this: diphthong. Ted McCagg McCagg got the idea for the project, he told me, while he was ...

That's a big and kind of silly sounding word, diphthongs, diphthongs, nice. Diphthongs are just those sounds that these teams of letters make. We're really going to be focusing on these three here.

Explore diphthong "oi" with Anna Scretching-Cole. A dipthong combines two vowels into a single syllable. Practice reading, blending, and writing words with "oi" and "oy." ...

One of these four words, the "Final Four" in Ted McCagg's "Best Word Ever" contest, became a champion this week. You may or may not agree with McCagg, creative director of an ad agency in Portland ...