It’s fair to say the English language can be a bit of a minefield at times. What else can you say about a language in which enough, cough, dough, bough, and through don’t rhyme with one another, or in ...

• The death of director Mike Nichols gave a public radio music director cause to revisit a devilishly difficult pronunciation exam that Nichols developed while a host on Chicago’s WFMT-FM. Nichols’s ...