Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Carolina has an extensive audio archive of local accents and dialects that contains thousands of recordings. Rhode Island, ...

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at ...

One of my two-year-old twins has just started nursery. She is extremely articulate and surprises me every day with the leaps in her language and vocabulary. I say this as a very proud and an openly ...

Accentism—discriminating against someone because of their accent—has a long history in the U.K., where the way someone speaks is often an easy way to tell their social class. People with working-class ...

Earlier this year, I was at a high-end store in Greenwich, Connecticut, and as I was shopping, a salesperson approached me, offering her help. She was curious to know where I was from. “New York,” I ...

Dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at some of the ...