“Ey oop! Ey oop!”, says comedian Michael McIntyre to his audience in Leeds. “That’s supposed to be ‘hello’, according to you.” He sticks with his Yorkshire theme for a couple of minutes, mocking nowt, ...

OK. So the Philly accent isn’t “fading,” per se. “It’s just changing in a different direction from where it was going before,” said Josef Fruehwald, one of the University of Pennsylvania linguistics ...

(Washington, DC) – The traditional Southern inflections associated with the Philadelphia regional accent are increasingly being displaced by Northern influences. A recent study supported by the ...

Northern English accents risk dying out within half a century as southeastern pronunciations increasingly dominate the country’s speech, scientists have predicted. Researchers from the universities of ...

There is a great deal of cynicism about Ulster Scots among unionists. Many consider it a desperately contrived counterweight ...

Babel, Molly. 2009. The phonetic and phonological effects of obsolescence in Northern Paiute. In JamesN.Stanford & Dennis R. Preston (eds.), Variation in indigenous ...