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 ...

To hear linguist Richard Ingham tell it, the double negative wasn’t nothing unusual in the history of the English language. In a revealing study in the current issue of Language Variation and Change, ...

A British Library collection of regional words and phrases shows that language is still evolving. If you’re shilpit, you’ll be able to shuck on your dead ronking kecks as far as your oxters. It could ...

Battered notebooks, in faded scrawl, old maps and tinny audio reels; the treasured relics that remain as the hard graft and brass tacks of the most famous dialect survey of all. Did you know with a ...

Does modern Yorkshire still boast a distinctive dialect? Rod McPhee got some answers from Professor Clive Upton of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

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 ...

Part of the fun of getting to know an English speaker from somewhere else—be it a different U.S. region or a whole other country—is debating how to say certain words. To you, pecan is “pih-KAHN.” To ...