The results suggest that phonological constancy (recognizing words in different dialects) is already evident by 19 months of age, but is not yet present at 15 months. We are surrounded by a multitude ...

Despite the fact that most of America speaks one language, there are distinctive sayings that are nearly incomprehensible to people from different parts of the country. In the South, there are phrases ...

Americans often delight in the accent stereotypes of New York City’s tightly lip-rounded “aw” vowel in “paw,” “talk” or “long,” and Boston’s pronunciation of something more like “pocking” or “packing” ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Where in the world is a pin a pen and tin means ten? Ohio, that’s where. Well, southern and southeastern Ohio, anyway. Residents of those areas speak something called south, one ...

American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. The idea first appeared in mainstream culture in 1937, when George and Ira ...

I don't believe that in the Caribbean we are any different from other people with regard to modifying the languages we adopted from other parts of the world with local variations of standard terms as ...

I say "tomah-to", you say "tomay-to". Or, if you're in Wales, I say "nawr", you say "rwan". More than 800,000 people in Wales speak Welsh - 874,700 to be precise, according to a survey published last ...

In my last article I referred to differences between West Indian dialects which are significant enough to create a communication barrier, at least initially. The difficulty the uninitiated have in ...