Navigating the world as the parent of a child with a unique or difficult-to-pronounce name can be a constant source of frustration. When I named my daughter Chiara, I never considered that people ...

Gisele Bündchen is an internationally known supermodel, but people apparently struggle to get her name right. A clip from her 2005 appearance on "Late Night with Conan O’Brien" has resurfaced online, ...

Siri is no one’s favorite virtual assistant, and if it’s also always pronouncing your name wrong, it’s doing little to endear itself to you. As recently as iOS 14, you could let Siri know its ...

Inhabited by a succession of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and Normans, Britain has spent centuries simmering into a confusing toponymic soup of counties, cities and castles. Over time, ...

Jodi Picoult is schooling fans on an unexpected topic. Following her recent TikTok debut, the author, who has written bestsellers My Sister's Keeper and Nineteen Minutes, might've penned her best work ...

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Texans are notorious for making their own language rules, so it’s no surprise that the pronunciation of our towns’ names is anyone’s guess. Like John Travolta reading a teleprompter or a former ...

Demi Moore laid down the law on how to pronounce her name — and it turns out fans have had it wrong this whole time. The movie star, 62, addressed the name debacle during an appearance on “The Tonight ...