A boat pulls into the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul is a city of dualities, and nowhere is that more evident than along the Bosphorus Strait—the liquid border where Europe and Asia ...

If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...