When you meet someone new in person, one of the first things you notice is how they speak – if they speak the same language as you or have a different accent. You’ll also notice if they use different ...

The decline of some regional English dialects has been mourned for years but now sign language is being hit by the same trend. Researchers say regional variations that produced 22 different ways of ...

Students explore the dialects of the English Language within a historical and social context. While in Great Britain, students will visit 3 different regions, collecting samples of English, Scottish, ...

NOBODY would dispute that Scots, in its various regional dialects, forms a language continuum with the dialects of England. In precisely the same way Frisian, Dutch, Low German, High German, and Swiss ...

One of the trickiest and most tempting acts of writing is to render a person’s styles of speech. My wife, who grew up in Rhode Island, may have once said to me, “I am going to need a new pattern for a ...

The inhabitants of rural England have long lamented their local tongue dying out due to the invading Londoners. Now there’s evidence to prove it. A University of Cambridge study into English dialects ...

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