New Mexico is a melting pot of cultures that somehow find influence among one another. A strong example of that is the Spanish dialect in northern New Mexico. The dialect is known as having roots in ...

“Ey oop! Ey oop!”, says comedian Michael McIntyre to his audience in Leeds. “That’s supposed to be ‘hello’, according to you.” He sticks with his Yorkshire theme for a couple of minutes, mocking nowt, ...

Northern English accents risk dying out within half a century as southeastern pronunciations increasingly dominate the country’s speech, scientists have predicted. Researchers from the universities of ...

The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster ...

2014: £1261 from the Research and Impact Stimulation Fund, focusing on accent and identity in teacher trainees. 2016: £500 from the ESRC to hold an event as part of the Festival of Social Science on ...