Parents sometimes opt for short, one-syllable names to balance out a longer last name or j. There’s a category of trendy names that have “one” thing in common: They are one-syllable girl names.

President Trump is very, very right on one thing: The press has been very, very unfair with him. We keep asking him questions, and then we post his responses, which makes him look, well, coarse. If ...

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 ...

With his sixth book "The Fish and the Not Fish," Peter Markus wanted write a book that was the first of its kind. So Markus, 48, of Trenton, conceived the idea of "Fish" (Dzanc Books $14.95), a book ...

How we respond to others' mistakes can hurt or strengthen our relationships. Source: Jared_1103/pixabay Psychologists define the fundamental attribution error as our ...

What are the shortest words with a given number of syllables? “I” and “a” each contain one letter and one syllable, which is the tightest ratio we could realistically expect. Are there any two-letter ...

Julia uses an anchor chart, songs and whole brain teaching to review the 7 syllable types. Julia reviews previously learned skills. Then she uses an anchor chart, songs, and whole brain teaching to ...

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, ...