The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations. But what are the absolute hardest words? Germans look at Polish and ...

The Palo Alto Vikings girls’ volleyball team (21-7) fell in a sweep to the Milpitas Trojans (18-9) on Senior Night Thursday at home. This loss marks the Vikings’ third league loss this season, moving ...

Mariska Hargitay has clarified exactly how her name is supposed to be pronounced. During Tuesday’s episode of the Good Hang podcast hosted by Amy Poehler, the Law & Order actor opened up about the ...

In case you’re unaware, or dare I say uneducated, the Aussie way to pronounce the word Z is to say ‘Zed’. A quick Google search will tell you that Zed is the standard pronunciation in British English, ...

Mariska Hargitay is setting the record straight. On the Oct. 21 episode of Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast, Hargitay set the record straight on the correct way to pronounce her name. Drumroll, ...

The 61-year-old actress was a guest on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast on Tuesday, where she revealed the pronunciation and meaning of her Hungarian name. Mariska — who is the daughter of late ...

Don’t tell these people that the unique town of Altadena is gone. That’s because more than nine months after the devastating Eaton fire wiped out their homes, their neighborhoods, their landmarks, ...

Did 17th-century immigrants to the 13 colonies have modern British accents? First, we need to figure out what a “British accent” is. Accents are pretty complicated things. Linguistically speaking, the ...

Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, is a major five-day holiday celebrated by many South Asian religious communities. In 2025, the main day of Diwali falls on Monday, Oct. 20, with the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - A Sunnyside High student was hit by a vehicle while walking to school on Thursday, Oct. 16. The school said it happened when the student was in a crosswalk near Bilby and ...

Given certain conditions having to do with word stress and the other sounds in a word, we simply do not like to have two r’s so close to each other. The name for the linguistic process where one sound ...

Say My Name aims to explore how pronunciation of student names is experienced by students, and the teaching and support staff who interact with them, in an endeavour to evaluate current language and ...