There are many differences between British and American punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Neither version is more correct than the other; which version you should use just depends on who your ...

American vs British English: If you have ever found yourself reading an article and wondering why one writer says “color” while another writes “colour,” you are definitely not alone. American and ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

In the national conversation taking place about systemic racism in the United States, one important element should not be overlooked: linguistic prejudice. African American English, like other ...

While Black Panther surpassed $1 Billion at the box office and continues to set records worldwide, what many may not realize is that although Wakanda is a fictional nation, the language spoken in the ...

As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language models have ...

Walter Edwards does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

This research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in the form a Tier I Canada Research Chair and several standard research grants. University of Ottawa ...

“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher ...