NEW YORK − Strange things are afoot at the Hudson Theatre. It’s been 36 years since Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter first brought “Party on, dudes” and “historical babes” into the pop-culture lexicon ...
The jokes started before rehearsals did. “Waiting for Bill and Ted”; “Bill and Ted’s Existentialist Adventure”; “Party On, Godot!” How could we not make cracks after Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, that ...
An analysis by language learning website Preply found that Massachusetts was the fifth hardest name for Americans to say correctly. It was also the fifth hardest state name to spell. The study found ...
Growth and innovation are back in fashion. This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, awarded to three leading scholars of “creative destruction,” makes it official. No less notably, in the US, ...
The wait begins! Two-time Tony Award nominee and multiple Olivier Award winner Jamie Lloyd returns to Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For ... (more info). See what all the ...
While speaking to press about fertility treatments, Donald Trump struggled to pronounce the fertility medicine Pergoveris, then jokingly asked why it couldn't have a 'nice, simple name.' Republicans ...
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Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler produced a historic display on Thursday night, but radio host Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo was still unable to pronounce his name correctly the following day. The rookie ...
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 ...
At the Webby Awards on Tuesday, Steve Wilhite, creator of the Graphics Interchange Format, asserted his authority in the controversial matter of the proper pronunciation of GIF. His five word ...
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 ...
From KMUW Studios and part of the NPR Podcast Network, You're Saying It Wrong is a podcast that looks at what we get wrong—and what we sometimes get right—when it comes to this English language.