We used features from the Survey of English Dialects to measure where neighboring towns spoke the most differently, which occurs at the borders between dialects.

For in the same way that dialects are languages in the making, so, too, do languages and dialects die out. We understand Chaucer because our own strain of English evolved from it.

In this article, I argue that at least in some subsets of grammar, non-standard dialects are indeed more natural than their standard counterparts. I present data from the new Freiburg English Dialect ...

Traditional English is set to fragment into a multitude of dialects as it spreads around the world, a language expert claims.

Britain's rich linguistic tapestry is changing, with the south-east region's dialect taking over the country due to forces similar to those which affected colonial Australia.

And as black English diverged further from white English, black and white people became even more separate, thus the dialects diverged further and thus communities became more separate, and so on.

Immigration judges must determine whether individuals facing deportation who speak dialects of English also understand American English or need interpreters, a U.S. appeals court ruled on ...

Not everyone in the United States speaks the same English, as a recent American Dialect quiz made very clear. In an essay originally published on her blog, Harmless Drudgery, lexicographer and ...

We used features from the Survey of English Dialects to measure where neighboring towns spoke the most differently, which occurs at the borders between dialects.