We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters. And we'll hear some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those words the way we do.
We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously, thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about making everything look Latin.
Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know they exist.
We look at what happens when we approach non-English words with a little too much gusto, and how, exactly, we should be saying foreign words so that we don’t sound silly (a ...
Doublespeak! We look at unconscious ways we follow the rules of English by doubling sounds and words, and how meanings of words can change when we say them twice. Now: are ...