Linguistics professor Bert Vaux explains how he created the data that turned into The New York Times' popular dialect test. A Closer Look At The New York Times Dialect Quiz What do you call that ...

Elyse Graham, who writes under the pen name E. J. White, recently released "You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English." A new book from a Stony Brook University professor explores ...

When Adam Moss stepped down as editor of New York magazine last month, it marked the end of an era. Since taking the helm of the august title in 2004, Moss had helped set the industry standard for ...

What do you call your grandmother? Do the words but and put rhyme? Would you eat a bread roll, a bap, a bun or a cob? “There are a lot of distinct dialects in the UK for a small land mass,” says ...

From the sharp vowels of the Northern Cities to the drawl of the Deep South, the nasal twang of the Upper Midwest, the ...

Leigh Dillon is a New York–based voice and dialect coach, but don’t ask where she is from—she keeps her origins hush-hush for a reason. “Actors always ask me, but I never tell them so if I tell you, ...

What do you call that carbonated flavored drink that comes out of a fountain at fast food restaurants? Pop; soda; seltzer? Well, depending on what you say can determine where you are from. That is the ...