A survey of more than 30,000 people, turned into a series of maps, showcase the linguistic quirks that make American English such a fascinating dialect.

Those groups, in turn, contain 25 regional dialects, each of which has a distinct accent, lexicon, and grammar. (If you want to see where your accent falls, try pronouncing the list of words found ...

What’s the word for “a sweetened carbonated beverage?” Did you say soda or pop? According to a video published this week by the Atlantic, your answer reveals as much about where you’re ...

The quiz explained the results this way: Based on your responses, the map at right shows the overlap between your speech and the various dialects of American English, as measured by data from the ...

A new dialect has been emerging from certain parts of Miami due to cultural intermingling between Spanish and English speakers. The distinct dialect is a Spanish-influenced dialect of English ...

African American Vernacular English is a stigmatized dialect that is still ridiculed in education and the workplace. Its speakers are coherent and intelligent communicators, but remain disadvantaged.

The sub-vs.-hoagie and American biscuit–vs.–British biscuit discussions both explore the variations between English dialects, as does anything else that has to do with semantics, sentence ...

Ovidiu Hrubaru/Shutterstock. Dialects are variations on a language based on specific elements. For example, a broad concept such as American-English has countless, more specific dialects such as ...