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 ...

For two countries whose histories are so intertwined, the United States and England have some pretty notable distinctions. Think miles vs. kilometers, dollars vs. pounds and driving on opposite sides ...

You may be familiar with the Oxford English Dictionary, but what about the Dictionary of American Regional English? In 1965, researchers from the American Dialect Society set out on an ambitious ...