Before the games began, athletes recorded the proper pronunciation of their names. Now, visitors to the official Olympics website can visit each athlete's biography and click on their name to hear it ...

People go *nuts* over this debate. If you’re looking for a simple way to start a playful argument and turn people against each other in (mostly!) good fun, ask what names they have for certain things.

Two ways of pronouncing and spelling the historic town of Lahaina have circulated on social media and in news reports since a devastating August wildfire killed 97 people. We asked Hawaiian language ...

Given certain conditions having to do with word stress and the other sounds in a word, we simply do not like to have two r’s so close to each other. The name for the linguistic process where one sound ...

Despite its impressive length, the meaning is simple. The word is commonly used to describe something extremely good, wonderful or delightful.