Head over to Instagram and take a quick scroll through the hashtag #acaibowl. What do you see? Nearly 1.4 million pictures of purple-ish bowls crowned with aesthetically pleasing rows of toppings, ...

What words are Americans struggling to pronounce? A look at Google searches shows a lot of the words have to do with food. An analysis found that the word ‘açaí’, the name of a palm tree species ...

Some say “ah-sigh;” I say “ah-kai;” but apparently the proper pronunciation of “acai” — the so-called super berry — is actually “ah-sigh-ee.” Who knew? Acai berries are native to the Amazon rainforest ...

Acai is the it-berry these days. You know you want to order it but you can’t quite remember how to pronounce it. If the so-purple-it’s-almost-black berry that hails from the Amazon rainforest and is ...

An unfortunate pitfall of trying and adopting international foods, though, is that many of us English speakers aren’t all that confident when it comes to tackling their equally international names.

We visited parks near downtown Cary and asked 10 people to pronounce açaí, gyro, gnocchi and Worcestershire. No one pronounced every word correctly! Several people mispronounced Worcestershire, and a ...