Thanks to its Native American and French roots, Vermont is home to many tricky to pronounce town names. One example is Winooski, which derives from the Abenaki word for Winoskitekw, which means onion ...

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An analysis by language learning website Preply found that Massachusetts was the 19th hardest name for Americans to say correctly. The study found that Milan, located in the northern part of the state ...

Premier League champions Liverpool host last season's runners-up Arsenal on Sunday (16:30 BST kick-off), with both teams looking to keep up their perfect starts to this campaign. Could we be in for ...

Fri, August 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM UTC The analysis also looked at the top 20 hardest state names for Americans to pronounce and spell. Rhode Island didn't make either list. What is the hardest town name ...

The study found that Quonochontaug is the most difficult place name to pronounce in Rhode Island. According to Preply, the hardest state name for Americans to pronounce is Arkansas. According to the ...

Back in 2022, Neil Shankar found himself visiting the same kind of shop, various iterations of which were sprinkled all across San Francisco. Each had an array of similar merchandise: fancy olive oils ...

Sometimes, when a bout of nostalgia overtakes me, I scroll through past columns, just to refresh my memory of topics that interested me in days gone by. Hippie names caught my attention in 2015, a ...

An analysis by language learning website Preply found that Massachusetts was the fifth hardest name for Americans to say correctly. It was also the fifth hardest state name to spell. The study found ...