Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few things are more painful than listening to an out-of-towner stumble over the pronunciation of “Matunuck” or hearing someone ...

Rhode Island is home to many tricky-to-pronounce town names - try Cowesett or Neutaconkanut or Usquepaug. Many of them have Native American roots, some hail from England and others are just strange.

Rhode Islanders are known for dropping R's, but also have distinctive ways of pronouncing certain vowels. Some of Rhode Islanders' speech patterns have more in common with those in New York than ...

Few things are more painful than listening to an out-of-towner stumble over the pronunciation of "Matunuck," or hearing someone bring up "East Green-witch." Rhode Island has more than its fair share ...

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 ...