People think that, because I write about grammar, I must have grown up in one of those we-value-education families, probably in a good school district. Nope. I dropped out without finishing the ninth ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

Hello, I’m Mr Firth and today we’re going to be focusing on words that have one or more syllables in them. But first, let’s remind ourselves what a syllable is. A syllable is a beat of sound in a word ...