South Carolina is sweet tea, Spanish moss, and saying “yes ma’am” with a smile—but if you butcher a town name, that smile ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Houston Public Media listener Ed Menger and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will ...

Zhou Zhang and Kevin Curry present a monumental riddle in their Sunday puzzle debut.

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain—and so do confused tourists trying to pronounce our town names. With ...

Linguists say this joyful weirdness isn’t random—it’s rooted in how humans build bonds, play with sound, and treat animals ...

Sperm whale clicking might not sound like much in a recording, but their vocalizations are the loudest on Earth, with these ...

While you might think people are just picking random words—and indeed some might be—there is actually a defined military phonetic alphabet that was established over the first half of the 1900s that ...

Apple is addressing a bug in its AI-powered dictation system that briefly transcribed "racist" as "Trump," sparking controversy just a day after the company announced a $500 billion U.S. investment.

Apple says that “phonetic overlap” is to blame for a peculiar glitch in the iPhone’s dictation feature. Over the last several days, the “bug” has gained traction on various social ...

They also noticed the basic building blocks of these codas which they describe as a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet" – much like phonemes, the units of sound in human language which combine to ...