NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida. If you ...

Language lovers and locals of an isolated mining region of the Ozarks are scrambling to preserve what's left of a dialect known as pawpaw French before it fades. The dialect once dominated this ...

Owhamya? Yam bostin'...Tara-ar-bit. If you know what these phrases mean, you may have grown up in the Black Country or be a fan of Peaky Blinders. They are as synonymous with the area as its foundries ...

Don't speak perfect Oxford English? You may face 'shocking' levels of discrimination when using large language models, ...

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 ...

If you speak English with a California accent but you want to learn to speak Sindarin like a native — that is, like a Middle Earth elf — where do you start? Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith ...

Steve Birks, a Potter himself, and chronicler of the Stoke on Trent area, tells us about the origins of the local dialect of North Staffordshire... The existence of dialects is not unique to the North ...

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...