The Michigan accent, part of the Inland North accent, is part of American English. Here are how some words sound in the ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.

The pronunciation of “Qatar” is a no-brainer for Arabic speakers and speakers of similar languages. But it’s one tricky ...

My son was born in California but is learning to speak in Western North Carolina, which is why he says "durt" instead of dirt, says "dawguh" instead of dog, and — somehow, in a way I've yet to ...

The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday in a precedential decision affirmed a Trademark Trial ...

The Rhode Island accent, as we know it, may be headed for extinction. While it’s still a reliable feature of the local landscape (“For the paahts depahtment, press 3”), a generational shift is ...

"Our system combined tackling spelling swaps like changing 'ae' to 'e' in words like 'archaeology' and word/phrase swaps so ...

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

To hear what this land really sounds like, go to Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai‘i and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation ...

So how did that happen—and exactly where did the American accent come from? Before we dive into why American and British ...

Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, celebrated his inaugural Mass at the Vatican after waving to the ...