In 2022, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, increased by more than 500%. Most of those who have ...

Congruity is important in fiction. Trust and verisimilitude are the first casualties when breaches of the unspoken contract between creator and audience occur. Each of us has our own limits on what we ...

Part of the fun of getting to know an English speaker from somewhere else—be it a different U.S. region or a whole other country—is debating how to say certain words. To you, pecan is “pih-KAHN.” To ...

Owhamya? Yam bostin'...Tara-ar-bit. If you know what these phrases mean, you may have grown up in the Black Country or be a fan of Peaky Blinders. They are as synonymous with the area as its foundries ...

What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the ...

Don't speak perfect Oxford English? You may face 'shocking' levels of discrimination when using large language models, ...

Pero, like, take a minute and tell me if this makes sense to you. You got to work and got down from the car. You went into your office and put the light. Claro, you had to dim it because it was super ...

Nancy Hopkins-Davisson never really heard herself until she heard herself on television. The year was 1975, and Nancy — then just Hopkins, a high-school student born and raised on the island of North ...

There are a bunch of quizzes out there that purport to tell you what American dialect you speak. But now there’s one that tells you what city your accent and dialect is from. For some of you, it’s an ...

Approximately two hundred people tune in every week to the hour-long online radio show German Music—Texas Style, which is recorded in a tiny studio in New Braunfels. Most of them, it is safe to say, ...