When you meet someone new in person, one of the first things you notice is how they speak – if they speak the same language as you or have a different accent. You’ll also notice if they use different ...

The decline of some regional English dialects has been mourned for years but now sign language is being hit by the same trend. Researchers say regional variations that produced 22 different ways of ...

NOBODY would dispute that Scots, in its various regional dialects, forms a language continuum with the dialects of England. In precisely the same way Frisian, Dutch, Low German, High German, and Swiss ...

The inhabitants of rural England have long lamented their local tongue dying out due to the invading Londoners. Now there’s evidence to prove it. A University of Cambridge study into English dialects ...

The King's English and Cockney are no longer common dialects among young people in the South East of England, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Essex studied the dialects of ...

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