Funny Indian names will make you laugh. They are not only hilarious by the meaning behind them, but also by their ...

Malaysia’s colourful English stepped into the global linguistic spotlight after words like “alamak” and “tapau” found a home ...

"My secret goal is that it's something that kids will think is funny, but that parents will, too." The story follows Claire, who is afraid of thunderstorms. For future stories, Falcone sees many ...

The institution itself acknowledges that “it sounds like science fiction.” A team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University has created a technique for sending sounds remotely to a specific ...

Ten To The Top Deep breath, clear your mind, let’s go! It’s the turn of Andy in Sutton Courtenay and Chris in Glasgow to try for ten to the top 15 mins ...

It was picked up from the Scots and northeast English word ‘crack’, meaning loud ... a fragment’, with the addition of the ‘een’ sound indicating something is small.

My analyses suggested that there are three types of English words: those that are considered beautiful, those that are considered ugly, and those that are neither. There are, however, other categories ...

To make matters worse, English includes homographs, i.e. words that share the same spellings but mean and sound differently. For example, the word “read” can be pronounced as both “reed” (present ...