Ah, ‘Merica. Land of the free, home of the brave, and the place where proper dialects go their separate ways. Let’s face it, in a country this big, it was bound to happen. Nevertheless, it jars us ...

Odds are you’ve noticed the spate of eerily accurate American-dialect quizzes making the rounds online. The questionnaires, which draw on data from the Harvard Dialect Survey to pinpoint the ...

The people who put together those dialect maps on how people speak across the US, have taken those maps and use them to predict where you are from. My wife and I gave it a whirl and it seems like it ...

Imagine looking at a map of the United States that is divided not into states but into dialects — a map that doesn’t tell you what a state’s capital is, but how a region’s residents pronounce their ...

I grew up “warshing” clothes and confidently reciting the capital of the United States as “Warshington, D.C.” Only later did I realize that many people simply “wash,” and that carbonated drinks might ...

Not everyone in the United States speaks the same English, as a recent American Dialect quiz made very clear. In an essay originally published on her blog, Harmless Drudgery, lexicographer and Merriam ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The wide variety of accents and dialects that characterise the different regions of Britain are in decline, according to new research from ...