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 ...

A smartphone app capable of differentiating between regional English dialects for the first time has been launched by linguistics experts. English Dialects, available on iOS and Android, aims to ...

A new book on American English in the Midwest makes Chicago seem exotic. It’s certainly not the title: “Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at `Heartland’ English” (John ...

A man I know recently spent several weeks visiting his native South Africa. Upon his return to the United States, he found himself one day passing through a certain section of Oakland. Everyone on the ...

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 ...

A phone app tracking is the decline of the UK's varied dialects Local words are used much less than they were in the 1950s It is "not unusual" for well-travelled people from England's south to be ...

Until the early 1900s English-speaking Canadians were, as a generalization, Anglophiles. We wanted to sound British, which is one reason we don’t sound American You can save this article by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Travel to Miami, and you might hear people say 'get down from the car' instead of 'get out of the car.' Miami Herald/Getty Images ...

Chinese students in an English class. Traditional English could one day become a family of languages, just as Latin once did Traditional English is set to fragment into a multitude of dialects as it ...