During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63 percent of the vote. A great deal of national attention was ...

Rick Aschmann, a professional linguist, has created a comprehensive analysis of "North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns," as a hobby. The main feature is a map, available in ...

Sometimes, accents speak louder than words. Just ask the Georgetown University researchers who have been studying the way people here in Washington speak. When they hosted a couple of forums this ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Do you say pop, soda, or coke when talking about a carbonated beverage? Chances are depending on where you live could affect how you respond when asking for a drink and that has ...

SCRANTON — Jeet yet? No. D’joo? Longtime residents of Northeast Pennsylvania likely would readily understand hearing that coal-region-speak as: Did you eat yet? No. Did you? Likewise, they would know ...

Americans tend to think that we’re a pretty homogeneous nation, in terms of our vocabulary. Yes, there are Southern drawls, and there’s Boston and Brooklyn and Appalachia and Minnesota, but the words ...

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 ...

A linguistics professor found that even Miamians who aren’t fluent in Spanish use or understand phrases that are direct translations. By Patricia Mazzei Patricia Mazzei reported from Miami, where she ...