More perky local crowd-pleaser than festival film, scriptwriter Katarina Sulajova's debut feature "Two Syllables Behind" says a lot about the post-communist world of Eastern Europe -- in this case, ...

People think that, because I write about grammar, I must have grown up in one of those we-value-education families, probably in a good school district. Nope. I dropped out without finishing the ninth ...

The word 'doctor' contains two syllables -- doc-tor. Then there's 'pottery', which contains three (pott-er-y) and 'God', which contains just one. If you still don't know what syllables are, exactly, ...

“Per-fect.” It’s the hiss of the year, the two-syllable word that has somehow become the default response of pretty much everyone working in hospitality. The first syllable is pronounced in a slow and ...

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 ...