If you say the word "rat" aloud, does it sound like you're talking about the rodent or the opposite of left? If you say "far," are you talking about a blaze or a distance? Your answer might be the ...

Americans consider the Southern accent to be the friendliest in the country, according to a new study. More than one in three people find the Southern twang — found in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 ...

Ohio’s three regional accents Dr. Katherine Campbell-Kibler, a professor of linguistics at Ohio State University, says Ohio has three distinct accents based on the state’s different regions – Northern ...

Winn attests that a person's dialect reflects all the places they've lived and all the people who have influenced them. He ...

Nashville's part of a region called the southern dialect zone. While Tennessee has seen an influx of new residents from states like California and New York, that's not all it takes to shift an area's ...