If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

If language is the glue that holds cultures together, then examining the United States through that lens makes a complicated mess of traditional ways we divide up the country to generalize: whether it ...

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 ...

A new dialect has been emerging from certain parts of Miami due to cultural intermingling between Spanish and English speakers. The distinct dialect is a Spanish-influenced dialect of English, born ...

The Clearing House is a must-have for middle school and high school teachers and administrators. Focusing on the "how to" aspect of teaching, the journal offers informative and practical articles on ...