SINK OR SWIM: Blue Canoe Learning, a Seattle-based developer of a mobile app that teaches English as a second language, has received a $500,000 convertible note from Qualcomm Ventures, the venture arm ...

While the familiar idiom “you say tomayto, I say tomahto” is meant to showcase the triviality of differences, the irony lies in its illustration of the wide variation in English pronunciation. Such ...