It's only a 40-minute drive from Queens to the Bronx in New York, but the difference in dialect is obvious to most familiar with the English language. In Canada you probably have to cross the ...

Hockey players are famous for their distinctive jargon, but while researching this phenomenon, a linguist and hockey player realized another interesting pattern in hockey speech: American hockey ...

University of Rochester linguist Andrew Bray started out studying the evolution of the trademark sports jargon used in hockey for his master’s thesis. For instance, a hockey arena is a “barn,” while ...

It’s no secret that our neighbors to the north take a fair amount of ribbing for the way they speak sometimes. In truth, the Canadian dialect has been fodder for comedians, television shows and movies ...

Dialect coaches give great interviews. They'll talk eagerly to you about the "marvelous ears" of Nicole Kidman, Tom Hanks, and Lily Tomlin. They'll run on about "cup" vowels and vowel shifts and ...

Having holidayed and lived over a lot of Canada, I've never heard 'aboot'. I worked with Newfs, and their language is distinctive, but even they didn't use it. BTW, Wayne's accent dialect on ...