What’s the word for “a sweetened carbonated beverage?” Did you say soda or pop? According to a video published this week by the Atlantic, your answer reveals as much about where you’re ...

In the map, which is based on the book Success With Words: A Guide to the American Language, Delaney divides the country into three main dialect groups: General Northern in blue, Midland in purple ...

The map tracks American dialects by […] ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Joshua Katz built an amazing interactive map as part of his final project for an applied statistics project at North Carolina ...

Imagine looking at a map of the United States that is divided not into states but into dialects — a map that doesn’t tell you what a state’s capital is, but how a region’s residents ...

Ah, 'Merica. Land of the free, home of the brave, and the place where proper dialects go their separate ways. Let's face it, in a country this big, it was bound to happen. Nevertheless, it jars us ...

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 ...

2002-12-15 04:00:00 PDT New York-- This city has long been a laboratory for the study of language, a petri dish in which dialects mingle and collide, where linguists have lurked incognito in ...

Two University of Georgia professors are looking to map all the different languages in the world. The project involves interviews with people of all backgrounds, ages, races and education levels, ...