America declared independence from British rule in 1776, so why are we still speaking “English” in 2026? As the nation’s 250th birthday approaches, President Donald Trump and Congress can leave a ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

In the musical My Fair Lady, snooty dialectician Henry Higgins searches in vain for “purity” of expression in English; he winces at the Scots and the Irish, shudders at the Cockney London accent. His ...

A team of linguists based in northern Arizona and in the United Kingdom need Arkansans' help in a massive undertaking. The linguists are putting together a corpus, or a large sample of natural ...

Data shows the map of languages spoken at home is changing. The reasons behind it are more complex than the numbers suggest.

A survey of more than 30,000 people, turned into a series of maps, showcase the linguistic quirks that make American English ...