Among the thousands of words in the English language, how do you go about choosing the best word ever? One blogger creates a single-elimination... "Gherkin" — I like saying it. It's vaguely Indian ...

What’s the best word ever? Blogger Ted McCagg has been positing his own picks for the last few months in a March Madness style competition of sorts. Ted McCagg took words that are fun to say and ...

Explore diphthong "oi" with Anna Scretching-Cole. Explore diphthong "oi" with Anna Scretching-Cole. A dipthong combines two vowels into a single syllable. Practice reading, blending, and writing words ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...

"Gherkin" — I like saying it. It's vaguely Indian sounding. "Kerfuffle." That's just fun, with so many F's packed into three syllables. "Diphthong" is sly because it's hiding a silent H, the H right ...