The pronunciation of “Qatar” is a no-brainer for Arabic speakers and speakers of similar languages. But it’s one tricky ...

In his amusing and enlightening new book, Gabe Henry traces the history of these efforts, beginning with a 12th-century monk named Orrmin, continuing through the beginnings of American English and ...

However, Webster plowed ahead, successfully abolishing, in his pioneering American Dictionary of the English Language ... by Eliza Burnz (nee Burns) for “phonetic spelling” as part of the ...

So these vowels, one moved out of space, well one moved out of place, and then the other one moved up in it. It’s the same reason why we now have spellings in English ... put Z’s on it was just to ...

These promotions are not only historic for the clubs but also highlight the growing influence of American ownership in English soccer. Birmingham City sealed the League One title with a dominant 4 ...

There was a time when the least popular people in English soccer were the American billionaires and MBAs who crossed the Atlantic to buy up the country’s oldest clubs. Often seen as clueless ...

Gussie works as a journalist at Vatican News. LONDON -- American Kielce Gussie, who works as a journalist at Vatican News, did the first reading in English -- several verses from the Acts of the ...

A new system that improves on the detection of pronunciation errors among non-native speakers could improve English language ...

According to a 2003 study in the British Journal of Psychology, children took more than two times longer to grasp English spelling compared to more phonetic orthographies like German or Spanish.