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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed ...

English can get really problematic when it comes to public speaking, because it's crammed with so many words that almost all of us have struggled to pronounce at least once or twice. As writers of ...

TV Newscasters work hard to speak clearly and enunciate words accurately. Words that don’t originate in the English language can become a challenge, like Qatar or Gaddafi , Kadafi, Qaddafi? But native ...

Humans evolved to remember sounds, not letters, so this isn’t surprising, say our readers – but we can easily remember words for which we have conceived an incorrect pronunciation Humans had been ...

What Is the Longest Word in English? Drum roll, please! Any guesses? The longest word in English is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis." According to ...