From New York to Los Angeles, people everywhere develop speech patterns unique to their region; however, these varied dialects are discriminated against at times. While this phenomenon is nothing new, ...

A man I know recently spent several weeks visiting his native South Africa. Upon his return to the United States, he found himself one day passing through a certain section of Oakland. Everyone on the ...

American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. In 1999, the Harvard Dialect Survey, a research project conducted by Professor ...

The study of dialect must always possess a peculiar interest to those interested in the development of spoken language. English, as spoken in America is not characterized by the strongly marked ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Later, I emigrated to the U.S. to teach linguistics at Wayne State University and began researching and teaching what academics ...

A University of Portsmouth physicist has developed a statistical model to predict how language patterns evolve, borrowing methods from particle physics to map the spread of words, accents, and ...

Not everyone in the United States speaks the same English, as a recent American Dialect quiz made very clear. In an essay originally published on her blog, Harmless Drudgery, lexicographer and Merriam ...

Despite the fact that most of America speaks one language, there are distinctive sayings that are nearly incomprehensible to people from different parts of the country. In the South, there are phrases ...

Americans tend to think that we’re a pretty homogeneous nation, in terms of our vocabulary. Yes, there are Southern drawls, and there’s Boston and Brooklyn and Appalachia and Minnesota, but the words ...