If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

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 ...

As we gather around the table over the holidays, listen to the words that come out of your relatives’ mouths. More importantly — listen to how they’re pronounced. Do you have any plans to go “dahntahn ...

In this article, I argue that at least in some subsets of grammar, non-standard dialects are indeed more natural than their standard counterparts. I present data from the new Freiburg English Dialect ...

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 ...

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 ...

Financial support for the Dialect and Heritage Project has come from National Lottery Heritage Fund (£530,500), the University of Leeds’ Footsteps Fund and alumni donations (£110,000), and partner ...

Where in the world is a pin a pen and tin means ten? Ohio, that’s where. Well, southern and southeastern Ohio, anyway. Residents of those areas speak something called south, one of three distinct Ohio ...

Where in the world is a pin a pen and tin means ten? Ohio, that's where. Well, southern and southeastern Ohio, anyway. Residents of those areas speak something called south, one of three distinct Ohio ...

Yakov Pichkar receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation (grant no. 62187). Nicole Creanza receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Different ...