Long names aren't all they're cracked up to be. In fact, there's even some research which indicates that people with shorter names might be more approachable. While there is certainly nothing wrong ...

Machado’s full name, Maria Corina Machado, follows traditional Spanish pronunciation. It’s spoken as: Let’s look at each part: - María (mah-REE-ah) – The stress falls on the second syllable, “REE.” ...

The Democrat emphasized to the people in the audience ― many of whom were creators — that “we are living history right now." ...

Sometimes word stress can change the meaning of the word completely. For example, record. If you stress the first syllable ( re cord), it means the noun - a disc we use to play music. If you stress ...

Migration- for study, work, or better life- has become a defining part of modern life. As families build new homes across continents, many seek ways to stay connected to the culture they came from.

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The word “recalcitrant” is pronounced /ruh-kal-suh-truhnt/. The word “recalcitrant” came from the Latin word “recalcitrare,” which literally means “to kick back.” The term was used to describe ...

A new study finds that people hear familiar words as louder than nonsense words, even when both are equally loud. The results suggest that our brains rely on language knowledge to shape how we ...

As a bioacoustics researcher, I have spent years studying the communication of animals – from the soft calls of crocodile nestlings synchronizing their hatching and pushing the parent to dig the nest, ...

Her debut short story collection, Code Noir, won the 2024 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and was also shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize , the Trillium Book Award and won the 2025 Carol ...