Is there such a thing as excessively authentic pronunciation? If it exists, it has certainly occurred on public radio, where everybody from classical music announcers to news reporters seem to have a ...

Not sure how to pronounce Cohoctah or Kitch-iti-kipi, Ypsilanti or Wequetonsing? Did you know that the community of Presque Isle is pronounced differently than Presque Isle County? The State of ...

In public radio we do our utmost to get things right, including the pronunciation of names and places. It shows we know our stuff and conveys respect — for the people we report about and the people ...

There’s a lot in a name.We’ve previously discussed the smoothest way to handle forgetting someone’s name—but what if you don’t know how to pronounce their name in the first place? With all the ...

One of the things tourists rarely know before they come to Maine for a visit is that we — much like our cousins to the south — don’t pronounce things the way one might expect the word to be pronounced ...

Not sure how to pronounce Cohoctah or Kitch-iti-kipi, Ypsilanti or Wequetonsing? Did you know that the community of Presque Isle is pronounced differently than Presque Isle County? The State of ...