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 ...

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 ...

To work on an accent with another person, a degree of trust is required. They have to make themselves very vulnerable to you. Many actors coming to that process are filled with fear. Now, I have ...

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Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...

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Learning a believable dialect as a “do it yourself” project can be daunting. Knowing what to listen for, how to break it down, and how to practice, and then turning your work into something that will ...

HONG KONG'S education department caused a furore in January 2014 by briefly posting on its website the claim that Cantonese was “not an official language” of Hong Kong. After an outcry, officials ...

ChatGPT is a closet racist. Ask it and other artificial intelligence tools like it what they think about Black people, and they will generate words like “brilliant,” “ambitious” and “intelligent.” Ask ...

Dialect coach Susanne Sulby spends a lot of time listening. The renowned speech expert behind Mare of Easttown and Silver Linings Playbook has built a reputation for helping actors nail the infamously ...

From after-school programs in Jiangxi to dialect-focused cartoons in Xiamen, local governments across China are mobilizing efforts to preserve local dialects that are increasingly at risk of fading ...