Elevator” is the first American Sign Language (ASL) word that Lu Ming, G-’25, learned at Gallaudet. On her first day as a new ...

Scholars of the academic specialty known as variationist sociolinguistics have found that across cultures, women are more ...

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 ...

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

Ahead, you’ll learn why he had it out for the u in color, and why the word is spelled differently in British and American ...

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

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

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

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

He achieved the American dream despite coming into this ... who supposedly didn’t speak any English. “Todo mocho. Todo chueco ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In his first words, Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, says "Peace be with you." ...