How do you pronounce words that begin with lots of consonants? What is a consonant cluster? It's a word that has multiple consonant sounds together. Look at the consonants at the starts of these words ...

You know "Pa-sgetti"—it's pasta with tomato sauce—and it's also the way many young children pronounce spaghetti. Why? Linguists who study how children learn language can tell you. The "sp" in ...

The scourge of spellers, silent letters are often a stumbling block when learning how to write in English. To the modern eye, it's unclear what these letters are doing in the words in question, and ...