Meaning: 'Circumspect' describes a person who is careful, cautious, and thoughtful, especially before speaking or acting. A ...

The 2024 report analyzing Google Trends found that Americans searched "how to pronounce" various words starting in January ...

There’s much to read in the the coming months of this year from authors including George Saunders, Tayari Jones, Helen Garner, Ibram X. Kendi, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney and Michael ...

Author Martha Barnette explores the origins of words like "boycott" and "mellifluous" as well as her own love of language.

They make their debuts as Prof. Remus Lupin (Rheon) and Peter Pettigrew (Harrison) in "Prisoner of Azkaban," released by ...

MUST a poet know ilm-i-arooz or prosody? Some poets say no and argue that prosodic metres teach us to measure the poetic rhythms and patterns of sounds as they occur in a poetic line, but prosodic ...

Not only do you want to make sure that the name “suits” your baby boy or girl, but you also likely want it to be meaningful ...

Because I am of a certain age, I remember the time 50 years ago when America celebrated its bicentennial, its 200th birthday.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (also known as cmudict) is a public domain pronouncing dictionary created by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It defines a mapping from English words to their North ...

According to listings prepared by personnel of both public library systems, Pilkey’s series accounted for the top five of the most widely circulated children’s books in Baltimore City ...

It could be argued that the internet is the best possible medium for dictionaries. For one thing, there’s unlimited space for definitions, idioms, and example sentences. Hyperlinks allow us to jump ...

Abstract: This paper proposes an approach to automatically parse children's reading of sentences by detecting word pronunciations and extra content, and to classify words as correctly or incorrectly ...