Linguistics professor Bert Vaux explains how he created the data that turned into The New York Times' popular dialect test. A Closer Look At The New York Times Dialect Quiz What do you call that ...

A tweet on Twitter caught my eye the other day. It seems an intern created the New York Times' most popular piece of online content in 2013. It's an interactive dialect map. Dubbed “How Y'all, Youse ...

What type of friend are you? Evergreen, Wallflower, Butterfly, or Firefly? If you’re not sure—and if you’re puzzled by how those categories are defined—then you can find out by taking this quiz ...