The British Library has assembled a unique digital collection that allows researchers and students to examine the evolution of spoken English. The collection includes 288 pairs of digital recordings ...

A smartphone app capable of differentiating between regional English dialects for the first time has been launched by linguistics experts. English Dialects, available on iOS and Android, aims to ...

In this article, I argue that at least in some subsets of grammar, non-standard dialects are indeed more natural than their standard counterparts. I present data from the new Freiburg English Dialect ...

A phone app tracking is the decline of the UK's varied dialects Local words are used much less than they were in the 1950s It is "not unusual" for well-travelled people from England's south to be ...

Chinese students in an English class. Traditional English could one day become a family of languages, just as Latin once did Traditional English is set to fragment into a multitude of dialects as it ...

A British Library collection of regional words and phrases shows that language is still evolving. If you’re shilpit, you’ll be able to shuck on your dead ronking kecks as far as your oxters. It could ...

Global travel and migration have given an unexpected shot in the arm to world’s dialects, until recently often viewed as a quaint, doomed relic of more primitive times. Incoming communities have ...

A man I know recently spent several weeks visiting his native South Africa. Upon his return to the United States, he found himself one day passing through a certain section of Oakland. Everyone on the ...

Immigration judges must determine whether individuals facing deportation who speak dialects of English also understand American English or need interpreters, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday in ...