When a wolf or dog howls, to us they might all sound the same. But researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed computer algorithms that have allowed them to analyze the howling from ...

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” ...

Did you know there’s no single “American accent”? In this video, we explore five major American English dialects — from the ...

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 ...

American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. In 1999, the Harvard Dialect Survey, a research project conducted by Professor ...

Many in Miami first come to realize they speak ‘Miami English’ when they, well, leave Miami. In the U.S., there are hundreds of different dialects across different regions, cities and communities. The ...

Ohio, that’s where. Well, southern and southeastern Ohio, anyway. Residents of those areas speak something called south, one of three distinct Ohio dialects. Says who? Ohio State University ...