Rick Aschmann, a professional linguist, has created a comprehensive analysis of "North American English Dialects, Based on ...

There’s a Southern twang in the Black Chicago accent, even though many Black Chicagoans are generations removed from the ...

For people living in some parts of the United States, their accent might not just indicate where they live, but also who they ...

Last Saturday, after a heated debate over whether drinking water out of a bottle without touching it to your lips is called “waterfalling” or an “air sip” (the correct answer is “waterfalling,” in my ...

This article was produced for the Observatory by the Independent Media Institute. Madeline VanArsdale is a linguist, writer, and editor with experience in content development, project management, and ...

On Sundays after church, my family would pile into our crank-window GMC truck and head to Kentucky Fried Chicken. “Can I get me some of them tater wedges?” my father would say into the speaker, while ...

Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country singer — and that evolution is apparent in her dialect, according to speech ...

Nashville's part of a region called the southern dialect zone. While Tennessee has seen an influx of new residents from states like California and New York, that's not all it takes to shift an area's ...

SCRANTON — Jeet yet? No. D’joo? Longtime residents of Northeast Pennsylvania likely would readily understand hearing that coal-region-speak as: Did you eat yet? No. Did you? Likewise, they would know ...

LAKEPORT>>> Romeo n’ Juliet by William Shakespeare debuted on Saturday at Library Park. It was a local co-production by the Lake County Theatre Company and Mendocino College. This was the start of the ...

NPR's A Martinez asks speech-language pathologist Kari Lim why some people try to lose their accents after Hollywood megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed his appreciation for his own accent.