Scotland is a wonderful place. It’s British, but not English. Most of the people living there speak English, but with their ...

The Académie Française, France's language regulator, recently unveiled the ninth edition of its dictionary after decades of ...

The tiny township of Beaulieu, Minnesota was named the toughest to pronounce and spell in Minnesota. They have a population ...

Étouffe-chrétien - roughly pronounced uhn ay-toof kreh-tee-ehn - technically translates as a ‘Christian suffocate’ or a ...

The full ninth edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française has been presented to France's President Macron.

If you’re from the north, you usually stress the second syllable. If you’re from the south, you stress the first. We have a kind of north-south divide where we stress our words: GUItar, INsurance is ...

Bourré - roughly pronounced boe-ray - is best known for its meaning in French slang, but literally it translates as ‘filled ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left speechless upon learning the value of a painting she had nearly given away to charity.

Niche—it’s a funny word. It comes from the French term of the same spelling, which originally referred to a recess in a wall ...

Sometimes food names can be tricky to pronounce. That’s because many are rooted in a foreign language (hello, French recipes!