*From Emmy-winning, nonprofit cable television channel and digital network, BRIC TV, the podcast “Brooklyn, USA” is back for a sixth season, which takes an in-depth look at six different languages ...

A great deal of emphasis has been placed recently on the fact that the approaches to second language teaching and second dialect teaching are so similar that the instructor of standard English can ...

If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

The fifth and final volume of the book will be released in March. Feb. 1, 2012 — -- intro: The Dictionary of American Regional English showcases the diverse dialects of different areas of the ...

Not everyone in the United States speaks the same English, as a recent American Dialect quiz made very clear. In an essay originally published on her blog, Harmless Drudgery, lexicographer and Merriam ...

While Black Panther surpassed $1 Billion at the box office and continues to set records worldwide, what many may not realize is that although Wakanda is a fictional nation, the language spoken in the ...

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 ...