Don't speak perfect Oxford English? You may face 'shocking' levels of discrimination when using large language models, ...

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida. If you ...

What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the ...

Steve Birks, a Potter himself, and chronicler of the Stoke on Trent area, tells us about the origins of the local dialect of North Staffordshire... The existence of dialects is not unique to the North ...

Many of the northern Lincolnshire dialect words have Scandinavian origins "I am proud to be called a Yellowbelly," Loretta Rivett declared in an emphatic voice. By using this slightly puzzling, ...

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...

TAIPEI, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- A comedy show celebrating Minnan culture by performers from Fujian Province was staged in Kinmen on Saturday, entertaining the audience with stand-up comedy, sketches, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), also known as Black Vernacular English (BVA) or ebonics, is a historic American English ...

If you speak English with a California accent but you want to learn to speak Sindarin like a native — that is, like a Middle Earth elf — where do you start? Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith ...

When one court reporter in Philadelphia transcribed that phrase, it turned into this: “We going to be in this neighborhood.” In other words, the opposite of what ...