If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

“He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.” These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans. In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance. According ...

Many in Miami first come to realize they speak ‘Miami English’ when they, well, leave Miami. In the U.S., there are hundreds of different dialects across different regions, cities and communities. The ...

Yakov Pichkar receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation (grant no. 62187). Nicole Creanza receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Different ...