I welcome the conversation, and not just because I have been called anything from Rodolfo to Rodrigo, Roberta or even José. Rather, it is because it brings attention to the one domain where it is ...

If you ever traveled around the world and stayed for long enough to get caught in the new country’s culture and language, you most probably know how hard it is to get the foreign names right. Whether ...

Navigating the world as the parent of a child with a unique or difficult-to-pronounce name can be a constant source of frustration. When I named my daughter Chiara, I never considered that people ...

New research suggests a person's name, specifically hard-to-pronounce ones, could make the difference between landing a job or their resume ending up in the reject pile. What's in a name? Well, maybe ...

Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of rogue consonants and surprise vowels. That’s because ...

Getting Siri to pronounce a complex or foreign-sounding name can be a challenge. Why? Because Siri’s method of determining how to pronounce proper names depends on your device’s system language. In ...

Editor’s Note: Join NewsHour Weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan for a special Google Hangout on mispronouncing names on Fri., May 27 at 1 p.m. EDT. Is your name hard to pronounce? Share your experiences ...

Good teachers would never want to do anything that makes a student feel ashamed or embarrassed. They would never want to do anything that leads students to distance themselves from their backgrounds.

Meanwhile, English itself has been evolving — as all languages do — and pronunciations changing. As a result, there are many towns across the country with names that are difficult to pronounce — and ...