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Think you know your 'Ey up' from you 'Nah then'? Yorkshire is famous not just for it's rolling hills, historic towns and ...
There are a bunch of quizzes out there that purport to tell you what American dialect you speak. But now there’s one that tells you what city your accent and dialect is from. For some of you, it ...
What does it take to be a dialect coach? Here’s some advice from McPherson, Strommen, Woods (whose first job was coaching Taye Diggs in “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”); Goda (who worked ...
The only thing that can save an attempt to impose a formal definition on the terms “language” and “dialect” now is perhaps to be found in popular usage, which suggests that languages are ...
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.
And however the community changes, so will the dialect. While our city’s dialect may take different forms from what was considered Milwaukee-ese 10 or 20 years ago, it’s still alive and well ...
Her favourite dialect words are “barm” – a bread roll in Manchester – and “mither”, which means bother in north-west England. These differences aren’t just reflected in society.
PostTV examined people's accents and state-specific answers to a list of questions created by Bert Vaux for a 2003 Harvard Dialect Survey. (Video: Jonathan Elker, Kate M. Tobey and Davin Coburn ...