A chance encounter gave E.T. his voice to phone home, but you won't believe how this unique voice was achieved or where else ...

Many in Miami first come to realize they speak ‘Miami English’ when they, well, leave Miami. In the U.S., there are hundreds of different dialects across different regions, cities and communities. The ...

Spoonerisms are among the most well-known speech errors, and for linguists and psychologists they offer a glimpse into how ...

Haircut 100 might be the most Eighties band of the Eighties. A gang of cheeky English boys, barely out of their teens, with ...

“They can greet people, but they stumble when it comes to reading and writing.” Elementary school students who come to our lessons after struggling with English. There is one thing they all have in ...

Why do our spellings not match our pronunciations? Why are so many words just really weird? Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson take us on a whistle stop tour of some of the key moments that forged the ...

When I first learned this, I was quite surprised. Today, I will write about these "44 phonemes" as clearly as possible. Japanese is very straightforward. "A" is basically the "a" sound. "Ka" is ...

What do you prefer – the sounds of birdsong and wind rustling in the trees, or the hum of traffic and chatter of people passing by? Some people like the quiet of the countryside and others love the ...

SCHENECTADY — The sounds of music are filling Proctors these days with a refreshing take on a storied classic. Nearly 70 years after it made history on the Broadway stage, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ...

SCHENECTADY — Revivals can be tricky. Remounts can be tricky. They risk feeling like hollow copies of an original, or audience grabs, reliant on the popularity of a title, without thought of what it ...