In the mid-20 th century, the Inland North accent was affected by what’s called the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, which changed the way certain vowel sounds are pronounced unbeknownst to the ...

Local Accents Give You a Sense of Place Barbara Johnstone is a professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of " Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect ." ...

Your accent becomes a bridge to opportunities for cross-cultural collaborations, partnerships, and friendships that might not have occurred otherwise. Speaking other languages helps your brain ...

The Power of Accents surveyed 2,002 U.S. residents, aged 18 and older, to explore which regional and international accents Americans find the most friendly, trustworthy and persuasive.

Tensions flared during testimony leading up to the final Texas Senate vote on the sanctuary cities bill. One incident struck at the heart of fears about immigrant assimilation and the preservation ...

In a standard American English accent, cot and caught would be pronounced the same, but to someone with a Michigan or Inland North accent, the two spoken words sound completely different. Sneller ...