Listen to the following audio clips to learn how to pronounce names of the Los Angeles Clippers players and head coach.

Listen to the following audio clips to learn how to pronounce names of the Orlando Magic players and head coach.

A new Iowa pronunciation guide has been launched; an online service where you can hear how locals pronounce their cities and towns. It’s the brainchild of a classical music producer on the radio, and ...

Is it just me or does it seems like athlete’s names are getting harder to pronounce each year? Sometimes it even hurts my brain to look at the jumble of letters and decipher how to pronounce them.

Have you ever heard a sound so shocking that it raises the hair on your neck and makes you whip your head around? No, it's not nails on a chalkboard or someone using a curse word in church, or a ...

Have a confusingly long first name you never use -- or a consonant-heavy last name -- that even your friends can't pronounce? A new Facebook feature recently spotted on some users' profiles is ...

Gratiot? Ypsilanti? Hamtramck? Lahser? Ishpeming? Michigan places have some funny-sounding names, thanks to our blend of cultural influences — and our insistance over the years to just go ahead and ...

Mangled names may be as much of an awards season tradition as snubbing female directors, but that doesn’t mean we have to be all right with it. Right in time for the Golden Globes, Slate has put ...

Bill Leslie's been studying NC towns and places since he was a child growing up in Morganton, N.C. Here's his guide for sounding like a local. Hello! As promised, my North Carolina Pronunciation Guide ...