Believe it or not, Michigan — the home of ope-sayers and pop-lovers — does actually have an accent of its own. The Michigan accent is a part of a more wide-ranging regional accent called the Inland ...

HOUGHTON, Mich., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Four Michigan legislators want to declare "Yooper" the official state dialect, to protect the accent and quirky colloquialisms of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Yoopers, ...

As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...