From after-school programs in Jiangxi to dialect-focused cartoons in Xiamen, local governments across China are mobilizing efforts to preserve local dialects that are increasingly at risk of fading ...

CHINA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The dominance of standard Japanese in colloquial speech across the archipelago has obvious advantages. But it comes at the risk of killing off rare dialects spoken on ...

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 ...

Don't speak perfect Oxford English? In 2024 researchers from the University of California, Berkely, tested ChatGPT's responses to several varieties of English dialects from places like India, Ireland, ...

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 ...

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’s an ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — Do you say pop, soda, or coke ...

Nancy Hopkins-Davisson never really heard herself until she heard herself on television. The year was 1975, and Nancy — then just Hopkins, a high-school student born and raised on the island of North ...

Pero, like, take a minute and tell me if this makes sense to you. You got to work and got down from the car. You went into your office and put the light. Claro, you had to dim it because it was super ...

Congruity is important in fiction. Trust and verisimilitude are the first casualties when breaches of the unspoken contract between creator and audience occur. Each of us has our own limits on what we ...

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 ...