"I'm afraid we cannot accept that," host Ken Jennings told a disappointed Mehal Shah after he misspelled the answer to the ...

The rules for determining syllable boundaries should be applied in the following order. From this order better generalizations can be made. The ordering goes from the more specific to the less ...

One-syllable boys names may be short on letters, but they can still be big on personality. Laura Wattenberg, founder of Namerology, says that one-syllable names can invoke a certain mood or feeling.

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').

As the world celebrates another Chinese Lunar New Year, as a genealogist the topic of Chinese surnames naturally occupies my mind once more.

Once again, when it comes to the vice presidential selection, it helps to have a one- or two-syllable last name. Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s selection as Donald Trump’s running mate puts him in ...