There is no surer way to detect non-natives than by their geographical mispronunciations. When you hear Medina enunciated as “ma-DEE-na”, Puyallup as “POO-a-loop” or Ballard as “ba-LARD”, you’ve ...

Gotta say that in my lifetime of living in Southern California, I've never heard nadie pronounce Junipero like you say people mispronounce it — the malapropism I hear is "June-IH-pear-oh," a ...

Is it iOS “eye-oh-ess” or “eye-oss”? Is it Linux “Lie-nux” or “Lih-nux?” How about sudo: is it really “sue-doo” for “superuser, do!” or has the more popular “sue-doh” population won out? In this ...