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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Georgia Professor Stephen Berry discussed his work on the digital history project, “Private Voices,” which gathers, transcribes, and ...

Microbloggers may think they're interacting in one big Twitterverse, but computer science researchers find that regional slang and dialects are as evident in tweets as they are in everyday ...

As many of us board planes for the holidays, we’ll run into people from across the country who may not say things the same way we do. On Think, guest host Lauren Silverman talked about regional ...

Linguists have figured out a lot about the many different regional dialects of American English. They know why Brooklynites say “cawfee,” for example, and why Bostonians say “Hahvahd Yahd.” They’ve ...

Jim Davis doesn't think he has a Midwest accent. "Most people in North Dakota don't believe we have an accent," Davis said. "I'm sure we do to another part of the country." The Upper Midwest regional ...

You know how we love maps here at FrontBurner. And here’s a massive one, which is even more massive on this site. It purports to trace English dialect variations in North America. To be fair, the ...

Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop singers in history, influencing millions of fans with her music. Thanks to years of recorded interviews, she is also influencing how we understand the ways that ...

Age-old regional dialects from around the country are undergoing a resurgence and spreading like wildfire thanks to the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Language experts have found the increased speed ...

Language experts have found the increased speed at which people communicate on the web means they are more likely to lapse into colloquialisms. And the rapid rise of social media and instant messaging ...

A team from the University of Leeds will catalogue over 700 hours of recordings amassed by the BBC Voices project. But campaigners said the study was a waste of money because everyone knows that ...

Europe is unusual because it isn’t home to any native parrot species. But despite this, there is a rather large and diverse crowd of parrot species that have established naturalised populations after ...