A new Iowa pronunciation guide has been launched; an online service where you can hear how locals pronounce their cities and towns. It’s the brainchild of a classical music producer on the radio, and ...

Barney Sherman first took to the Iowa Public Radio airwaves in 2001 only to be scolded by his erudite audience of classical music listeners that he had mispronounced the name not of some obscure, dead ...

Facing a rapidly expanding population of Chinese students, a business school in Iowa hosts a workshop on how to pronounce their names. With more Chinese students showing up on University of Iowa class ...

Editor's note: This story was first published in 2019. Iowans seem to have their own language — newcomers and visitors to the state can tell you that. This parlance extends to the names of small towns ...