The rules for determining syllable boundaries should be applied in the following order. From this order better generalizations can be made. The ordering goes from the more specific to the less ...

Last year, I wrote about how to say foreign names and places on the air. I offered tips and resources on correct pronunciation in any language. But recently I heard a piece about a Central American ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but 'door' had just one ('door'). Breaking ...