Experts who study how science, history, and psychology shape our speech aren't surprised by our natural curiosity about the accents we hear around us. Even more, people often have personal stories ...

Can you advise someone like me, who has training in linguistics and who genuinely enjoys hearing a variety of accents and names? I have no trouble asking native speakers of Englis ...

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You advised a reader that not even the weather is a safe conversation topic nowadays, since it may get into climate change. And asking about accents or last names can be fraught, since it may be taken ...

How did the false caricature of how people from New Jersey talk. So how did this inaccuracy begin?

You advised a reader that not even the weather is a safe conversation topic nowadays, since it may get into climate change.