"Was that fun?" queried jazz legend Eliane Elias midway through her fast-paced samba-infused set at Blues Alley. "Yeah" roared back the sold out crowd, happy to leave behind the angst pervading DC ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...

What is word stress and how do we use it? In words with more than one syllable, there’s usually at least one syllable that sounds clearer or more obvious. Maybe it’s stronger, louder or higher. For ...

Decades into his Academy Award-winning career, Denzel Washington is setting the record straight on how to pronounce his name. During a Sept. 2 appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," "The Equalizer" actor ...

Practise by using the worksheet on this page. The clip we heard came from an episode of Job Applications - discover the series. Do you want to learn about connected speech? Try Tim's Pronunciation ...

Words with the letters 'ed' at the end are usually regular past tense verbs like 'started' or adjectives like ‘confused’. The pronunciation of 'ed' can change depending on which sound comes before it ...