Winn attests that a person's dialect reflects all the places they've lived and all the people who have influenced them. He ...

Over the past two decades, Taylor Swift has categorized her music, relationships and style in eras. But researchers have ...

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Do you speak ‘Manc’, ‘Lancashire’, ‘posh’ or 'Wigan'? That’s the question a group of sociolinguists at Manchester Metropolitan University are trying to figure out. The Manchester Voices research ...

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

The legend is that the Kennedy family was cursed. The reality is that the Kennedy family was blessed with an unmistakably odd style of speech. "It doesn't really sound like anybody else from ...

According to the findings published in a new sociology paper, an accent can heavily affect your life opportunities, especially in some specific fields. To avoid confusion with potential racial issues ...

Over the past two decades, Taylor Swift has categorized her music, relationships and style in eras. But researchers have found another thing that Swift seems to change often — and that is the way she ...