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 ...

Southern dialects may be spreading across the UK, but the North is pushing back in some areas, new research has shown. The research by the University of York, Lancaster University and New York ...

Discover the fascinating story behind the emergence of a new English dialect in South Florida known as "Miami English." ...

A survey of more than 30,000 people, turned into a series of maps, showcase the linguistic quirks that make American English ...

When you meet someone new in person, one of the first things you notice is how they speak – if they speak the same language as you or have a different accent. You’ll also notice if they use different ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE Queen’s English is “freatened” with extinction as “th” sounds are dropped from the English language amid a rise in multiculturalism, a report has claimed. The Cockney dialect will be “brown bread” ...

Immigration judges must determine whether individuals facing deportation who speak dialects of English also understand American English or need interpreters, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conditions in rural England around the turn of the 20th century offer a case study for cultural evolution researchers. Heritage ...