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Barry Keoghan to Shein: The most mispronounced words of 2024

Have you been saying these words correctly?

Evening Standard

Chappell Roan, semaglutide and Kamala Harris: the most mispronounced words of 2024

Language experts rounded up the year’s winners (losers?) in the US and UK – and provided the correct pronunciations

The Guardian - US

2024 Mispronounced Words: Harris, Roan, And More

Explore the Babbel and The Captioning Group list of most mispronounced words in 2024, featuring names like Chappell Roan and Kamala Harris, and the importa...

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The most mispronounced words of 2024 include one of the biggest songs of the year and a Dune actor

Kamala Harris also made the list

The Independent UK

How to survive Paris during the 2024 Olympics

For the uninitiated, Paris can be a lot. So, Fortune spoke to tourism, insurance, banking, and culture experts for their tips on navigating the city.

Fortune

‘I was flabbergasted’: refunds for unused subscriptions may be easier than you think

Whether the deal auto-renewed without your knowledge or you forgot a free trial had ended, try asking for your money back

The Guardian - UK

Can Language Apps Teach You to Speak a Foreign Language?

Your expectations might be too high if you think an online language platform can teach you to have a meaningful conversation in a foreign language.

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From SZA to the Stone of Scone, the words that help tell the story of 2023 were often mispronounced

Some of the words tied to this year’s hottest topics were also among the most mangled when it came to saying them aloud

The Independent UK

When she won the first national spelling bee, Marie C. Bolden dealt a blow to racism

Her victory made national news, upending stereotypes about race less than 50 years after the end of slavery. It also sparked racist fury.

WEKU

Workers are ‘giving away’ 56 hours a year by working through their lunch breaks

A recent poll of 2,000 employed adults found they typically take a full lunch break just 11 out of their 20 working days a month

The Independent UK

Half of workers find lunch breaks 'boring' - and work through them four days a month

Employed adults 'give away' 56 hours a year - by only taking a full lunch break on 11 out of their 20 working days each month

Daily Mirror

How to be a CEO podcast: Babbel CEO Arne Schepker on building work culture

Arne Schepker has been CEO of language learning business Babbel since 2015.

Evening Standard

Tagovailoa, Zaporizhzhia make list of most mangled words

The Miami Dolphins quarterback at the center of the NFL's overhaul of its concussion protocols and the Ukrainian city that's home to Europe's largest nuclear plant are among this year's list of most mispronounced words

The Independent UK

Black coffee, limited screen time, and early morning rowing: Here's how the CEO of language app Babel stays sane

CEO Julie Hansen says employee work-life balance is something she takes seriously as a leader.

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There were many more monikers Babbel considered to be 'endangered

Edinburgh Live

The UK baby names that have become extinct and those set to become 'endangered'

Some once-common baby names have fallen out of use completely since 1994, but a number of others are also at risk of being completely eradicated after being deemed 'unfashionable' by new parents

Daily Mirror

Baby name trends come and go but certain names have really fallen out of popularity over the last 26 years, according to experts over at Babbel who have analysed records

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