As we gather around the table over the holidays, listen to the words that come out of your relatives’ mouths. More importantly — listen to how they’re pronounced. Do you have any plans to go “dahntahn ...

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 ...

Nancy Hopkins-Davisson never really heard herself until she heard herself on television. The year was 1975, and Nancy — then just Hopkins, a high-school student born and raised on the island of North ...

Financial support for the Dialect and Heritage Project has come from National Lottery Heritage Fund (£530,500), the University of Leeds’ Footsteps Fund and alumni donations (£110,000), and partner ...

EVEN as the country works towards developed-nation status, it must not lose sight of its unique multicultural heritage, warn experts.

Don't speak perfect Oxford English? In 2024 researchers from the University of California, Berkely, tested ChatGPT's responses to several varieties of English dialects from places like India, Ireland, ...

YESTERDAY'S post on Cantonese touched a few nerves. A blog post is a very compressed medium, and I said some things briefly that I still stand by but which deserve a bit of elaboration. My calling ...

Europe is unusual because it isn’t home to any native parrot species. But despite this, there is a rather large and diverse crowd of parrot species that have established naturalised populations after ...