Financial support for the Dialect and Heritage Project has come from National Lottery Heritage Fund (£530,500), the University of Leeds’ Footsteps Fund and alumni donations (£110,000), and partner ...

A British Library collection of regional words and phrases shows that language is still evolving. If you’re shilpit, you’ll be able to shuck on your dead ronking kecks as far as your oxters. It could ...

This was a question I should really have anticipated, but it took me by surprise. I had just talked to a packed marquee at the 2018 Hay Festival about why dialects of English are of such enduring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This was a question that I should really have anticipated, but it took me by surprise. I had just talked to a packed marquee at ...

Yakov Pichkar receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation (grant no. 62187). Nicole Creanza receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...