Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can tell where Emily Sweeney is from the minute she says "coffee." If you want to imagine her speaking, picture her saying the ...

As outrage over the shooting deaths of African-American teens continues to fill the airwaves, Stanford linguistics Professor John Rickford says more attention needs to be paid to prejudices toward ...

As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

Over the past 250 years, since adopting the Declaration of Independence, American life has changed in many ways the founding fathers could not have foreseen, from massive medical and technical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Later, I emigrated to the U.S. to teach linguistics at Wayne State University and began researching and teaching what academics ...

Linguists have figured out a lot about the many different regional dialects of American English. They know why Brooklynites say “cawfee,” for example, and why Bostonians say “Hahvahd Yahd.” They’ve ...

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Not everyone in the United States speaks the same English, as a recent American Dialect quiz made very clear. In an essay originally published on her blog, Harmless Drudgery, lexicographer and Merriam ...

You can tell where Emily Sweeney is from the minute she says "coffee." If you want to imagine her speaking, picture her saying the following words like Ben Affleck: "Park the car in Harvard Yard." The ...