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Ggm teachers launch tongue twister booklet to boost verbal skills
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ggm teachers launch tongue twister booklet to boost verbal skills

Hindustan Times  

As part of the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy, government school teachers in Gurugram have introduced a unique booklet of tongue twisters to improve oral language development and pronunciation among students from classes one to five. Designed to aid young students in practicing challenging sounds, the tongue twisters target common pronunciation issues, helping students develop …

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Mother claims stranger ‘ruined daughter’s life’ after correcting name pronunciation
2 months, 1 week ago

Mother claims stranger ‘ruined daughter’s life’ after correcting name pronunciation

The Independent  

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Elon Musk is mocked for his bizarre pronunciation of 'Robovan' - as one Tesla fan claims he 'makes it sound like a herpes medication'
2 months, 1 week ago

Elon Musk is mocked for his bizarre pronunciation of 'Robovan' - as one Tesla fan claims he 'makes it sound like a herpes medication'

Daily Mail  

After months of anticipation, Elon Musk finally unveiled not just one, but two new Tesla vehicles to the world last night. Several baffled Tesla fans took to X following the Hollywood launch event, with one claiming Musk's pronunciation made the Robovan sound 'like a herpes medication.' After months of anticipation, Elon Musk finally unveiled not just one, but two new …

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John Oliver gleefully pounces on JD Vance for botched Haiti pronunciation
3 months ago

John Oliver gleefully pounces on JD Vance for botched Haiti pronunciation

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I still want to talk about this, both because …

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'Fatty McFelon': Internet erupts as Trump makes fun of Kamala Harris' name pronunciation
4 months, 3 weeks ago

'Fatty McFelon': Internet erupts as Trump makes fun of Kamala Harris' name pronunciation

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump doubled down on a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris during his address to Turning Point USA in Florida, including that she is anti-Jewish. "And by the way, there are numerous ways of saying her name, they were explaining to me, you can say KAmala, you can say KaMAla, I said, don't worry about it," …

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Awkward moment reporter grills New Hampshire governor over whether he's mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name on purpose
5 months ago

Awkward moment reporter grills New Hampshire governor over whether he's mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name on purpose

Daily Mail  

New Hampshire's Governor was asked if he is deliberately mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name during an awkward exchange with a reporter. Chris Sununu was challenged over his pronunciation of the Vice President's first name by Politico journalist Eugene Daniels. New Hampshire 's Governor Chris Sununu was asked if he is deliberately mispronouncing Kamala Harris ' name during an awkward exchange with …

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BMRCL pays tribute to Aparna, plays message on metro trains
5 months, 1 week ago

BMRCL pays tribute to Aparna, plays message on metro trains

The Hindu  

A day after the demise of renowned anchor and actress Aparna Vastarey, who was battling lung cancer, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited paid tribute to her on Friday by playing a special message multiple times in all the metro trains. For citizens travelling by Namma Metro, Aparna was a constant companion during their ride as she was the voice …

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Spivak, politics of pronunciation, and the search for a just democracy
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Spivak, politics of pronunciation, and the search for a just democracy

Al Jazeera  

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the noted postcolonial scholar and global public intellectual, is perhaps best known for her piece, “Can the subaltern speak?,” in which she claims that elite systems of knowledge filter out subaltern voices so that even when the subaltern does speak, it’s not heard. Spivak’s May 21 lecture on Du Bois’s “vision of democracy” was aimed at underlining …

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Column | Pronouncing privilege
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Column | Pronouncing privilege

The Hindu  

An obsession with correcting other people’s pronunciation, especially words of foreign origin, is a favourite hunting game of a certain kind of Indian. The usual vibrations that this produces became a loud buzz recently when renowned academic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and a student at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University engaged in a stand-off over the name of American sociologist W.E.B. Check …

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Amol Rajan: I’m going to start pronouncing the letter H properly now
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Amol Rajan: I’m going to start pronouncing the letter H properly now

The Telegraph  

The broadcaster said that in the next series, which starts in the summer, he would start saying “aitch”, despite the Oxford English Dictionary declaring that “haitch” is a commonly used variant. The BBC pronunciation unit says that “aitch” is the standard British English pronunciation across the United Kingdom and that “haitch” is standard across Ireland and is considered a possible …

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Why it is all right to speak English with different accents
1 year ago

Why it is all right to speak English with different accents

The Hindu  

A few days ago, I saw a video of Austrian-American actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about hiring an accent removal coach at the start of his career to eliminate his thick Austrian accent. During The Graham Norton Show, when the host praised Schwarzenegger for his accent, Schwarzenegger quipped, “Yeah, after 5,000 years.” When I shared the video in a …

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From SZA to the Stone of Scone, the words that help tell the story of 2023 were often mispronounced
1 year ago

From SZA to the Stone of Scone, the words that help tell the story of 2023 were often mispronounced

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Some of the words tied …

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The art of English pronunciation: Identifying words in English commonly mispronounced and their correct use
1 year, 1 month ago

The art of English pronunciation: Identifying words in English commonly mispronounced and their correct use

Hindustan Times  

While in matters of communication, fluency plays an important role, it is also imperative that users take care of their pronunciation to make their articulation more effective. For, even when people with excellent command over the English language mispronounce words, the expression suffers. Learn to pronounce common words correctly English writing skills series: Know common errors and learn the remedies …

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An excerpt from Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty’s The Assamese: A Portrait of a Community
1 year, 1 month ago

An excerpt from Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty’s The Assamese: A Portrait of a Community

The Hindu  

Here’s an excerpt from the book: ‘SILY SIKEN’ AND THE ‘X’ FACTOR: THE HISTORY OF ASSAMESE LANGUAGE On a summer day in 1973, then Assam chief minister Sarat Chandra Sinha visited our tiny town. Assamese linguist Debananda Bharali had pointed out in his 1912 book Axomiya Bhaxar Moulik Bisar that certain Assamese words follow the norms noted in the first …

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Social media digest
1 year, 4 months ago

Social media digest

China Daily  

Berlin-based director Martin Haerlin uses AI technology to put himself in different virtual scenes. CHINA DAILY AI enters the background HYBE, one of the largest music companies in South Korea, used AI technology to help its K-pop singer MIDNATT release his latest track Masquerade in six different languages — English, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese. Berlin-based director Martin Haerlin …

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Social media digest
1 year, 4 months ago

Social media digest

China Daily  

Berlin-based director Martin Haerlin uses AI technology to put himself in different virtual scenes. CHINA DAILY AI enters the background HYBE, one of the largest music companies in South Korea, used AI technology to help its K-pop singer MIDNATT release his latest track Masquerade in six different languages — English, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese. Berlin-based director Martin Haerlin …

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Social media digest
1 year, 4 months ago

Social media digest

China Daily  

Berlin-based director Martin Haerlin uses AI technology to put himself in different virtual scenes. CHINA DAILY AI enters the background HYBE, one of the largest music companies in South Korea, used AI technology to help its K-pop singer MIDNATT release his latest track Masquerade in six different languages — English, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese. Berlin-based director Martin Haerlin …

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Social media digest
1 year, 4 months ago

Social media digest

China Daily  

Berlin-based director Martin Haerlin uses AI technology to put himself in different virtual scenes. CHINA DAILY AI enters the background HYBE, one of the largest music companies in South Korea, used AI technology to help its K-pop singer MIDNATT release his latest track Masquerade in six different languages — English, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese. Berlin-based director Martin Haerlin …

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Taylor Lautner Says We've All Been Mispronouncing His Name 'For Decades'
1 year, 5 months ago

Taylor Lautner Says We've All Been Mispronouncing His Name 'For Decades'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Add Taylor Lautner to the growing list of Hollywood stars who are having to set the record straight on the correct pronunciation of their names. The “Twilight” actor made the surprise revelation last week while appearing on “The Unplanned Podcast With Matt & Abby” alongside his wife, Tay Dome Lautner. “It is my fault that nobody knows …

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Zomato cooks up a storm on Twitter with their ‘zoMaato or zoMaito’ question
1 year, 8 months ago

Zomato cooks up a storm on Twitter with their ‘zoMaato or zoMaito’ question

Hindustan Times  

How do you pronounce Zomato? It all started after Zomato’s CEO Deepinder Goyal addressed the company as ‘zoMaato’ in his recent tweet. This ‘zoMaato’ vs ‘zoMaito’ debate garnered attention on social media, prompting Goyal to create a poll asking people to share how they pronounce the brand’s name. “Hard to believe that no one was harmed in the making of …

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Jimmy Kimmel’s wife addresses Oscars host’s pronunciation of Rihanna after fan confusion
1 year, 9 months ago

Jimmy Kimmel’s wife addresses Oscars host’s pronunciation of Rihanna after fan confusion

The Independent  

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'Diya', 'Desh', 'Almirah': What are the Indian English Words Added to Oxford English Dictionary?
1 year, 10 months ago

'Diya', 'Desh', 'Almirah': What are the Indian English Words Added to Oxford English Dictionary?

News 18  

Pronunciation transcriptions and audio for more than 800 entries associated with Indian English, including words like ‘desh’, ‘bachcha’, ‘diya’, ‘almirah’ and ‘bindaas’, are now available in the Oxford English Dictionary. This most recent addition to the World English pronunciation audio archive fills a large gap for the 130 million Indian English speakers in India. I am delighted that we have …

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'Cam-a-la': Biden flubs pronunciation of VP Kamala's name
1 year, 11 months ago

'Cam-a-la': Biden flubs pronunciation of VP Kamala's name

Daily Mail  

Joe Biden, 80, forgot how to pronounce his own vice president's name during a speech recognizing the Golden State Warriors for the NBA Championship win. The President pronounced Vice President Kamala Harris' first name as 'CAM-a-la' rather than the correct pronunciation of 'COMMA-la'. President Joe Biden mispronounced his Vice President's name on Tuesday, calling her 'CAM-a'la' rather than the correct …

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Learn English: Homophone vs Homonym, Know the Difference and How to use Them in Sentences
2 years ago

Learn English: Homophone vs Homonym, Know the Difference and How to use Them in Sentences

News 18  

Everyone wants to improve their English communication skills and to do the same people one has to improve their pronunciation as well. In today’s Learn English section you will learn all about homonyms and homophones in the English language. Homophones and homonyms are difficult when you are learning English grammar and vocabulary, but when once you understand them the English …

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