Strewth. Crikey. Bloody hell. An Australian woman has reportedly sparked a security scare aboard a US flight after her use of a common Australian phrase was apparently misinterpreted as an act of aggression ( Read more... )

A Barnsley MP has launched a campaign in Westminster to preserve the Yorkshire accent and dialect ( Read more... )

UT professor works to help speakers in Fredericksburg preserve Texas German ( Read more... )

LANGUAGE: Linguists from Madison travel the state to talk about speech differences in Wisconsin ( Read more... )

By MARK JOHNSON markjohnson@journalsentinel.com ( Read more... )

LINGUISTICS:A researcher studies and then presents a paper on the fading dialect of Iron Range English ( Read more... )

Chinese nanny state takes root in US

China's emergence as an economic superpower has been well-documented.

Western business leaders are said to be gearing up for all the changes to come, but they are not the only ones keen to get a head start.

An increasing number of families in the United States is looking to ( Read more... )

TO the untrained ear monkeys of a certain species may all sound the same, but Japanese researchers have found that, like human beings, they actually have an accent depending on where they live ( Read more... )

"Y'all" isn't welcome in Erica Tobolski's class in voice and diction at the University of South Carolina. And forget about "fixin'," as in getting ready to do something, or "pin" when talking about the writing instrument ( Read more... )