A mom woke up speaking like a member of ABBA. Georgina Gailey, 60, noticed her Swedish twang while chatting to her sister on FaceTime. Hospital medics suspected a stroke, but two weeks later she was ...
It was in Robert MacNeil’s TV series The Story of English that I first heard the rumor of Shakespearean English being alive and well on certain islands off the coast of the southeastern United States.
Professor, Linguistics, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University If you live in the UK or are familiar with its wide range of accents and dialects, you can probably tell the ...