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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was a question that I should really have anticipated, but it took me by surprise. I had just talked to a packed marquee at the 2018 Hay Festival about why dialects of English are of such enduring ...

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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 ...