“Ey oop! Ey oop!”, says comedian Michael McIntyre to his audience in Leeds. “That’s supposed to be ‘hello’, according to you.” He sticks with his Yorkshire theme for a couple of minutes, mocking nowt, ...

(Washington, DC) – The traditional Southern inflections associated with the Philadelphia regional accent are increasingly being displaced by Northern influences. A recent study supported by the ...

BOONVILLE — A Northern California dialect that is one of just two homegrown languages in the United States may soon go extinct. The San Francisco Chronicle reported ...

Northern English accents risk dying out within half a century as southeastern pronunciations increasingly dominate the country’s speech, scientists have predicted. Researchers from the universities of ...