Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...
IN 1789, Noah Webster declared ‘the pure English pronunciation in Great Britain and New England’ to be ‘exactly the same in both.’ Ever since that time those who undertake the difficult task of ...
The minute I open my mouth, it’s clear that I’m from New York (Brooklyn, to be exact). And though my high school speech teachers did their best to beat the accent out of me—and I do tamp it down—it’s ...
OK, I'm "succinct." Now how do you say me? I did a little poll about this on Twitter and the results were interesting. Of 416 respondents, 55% said they pronounce it like "sus-sinct" (or "suh-sinct"), ...