Many accents from different parts of the English-speaking world actually have a ton of similarities. Dialect coach Erik Singer talks about how this happens, and breaks down which mouth and tongue ...

Have you ever had a hard time telling the difference between an Aussie and a Kiwi accent? Dialect coach Erik Singer breaks down the subtle differences between a few commonly confused regional accents.

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University This is an article from Curious ...

“It’s teh-may-toes, not too-MAHH-toes,” snapped the dining staff. I looked back at him, a little surprised and rather hurt. I had never felt uncomfortable speaking my first language, English, until ...

Despite the fact that most of America speaks one language, there are distinctive sayings that are nearly incomprehensible to people from different parts of the country. In the South, there are phrases ...

Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age-matched peers exposed to ...

For two countries whose histories are so intertwined, the United States and England have some pretty notable distinctions. Think miles vs. kilometers, dollars vs. pounds and driving on opposite sides ...