Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up as a first-generation Cuban American in Miami, Ismael Llano never thought twice about the way he spoke. “It’s one of ...

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 dialect of English, known to us as “Coal Cracker” or “Coal Cracking English” was my first language and I still hold great affection for it. These days it has become rare, as mass media has washed ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida. If you ...

As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

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Many in Miami first come to realize they speak ‘Miami English’ when they, well, leave Miami. In the U.S., there are hundreds of different dialects across different regions, cities and communities. 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 ...