How do you tell if someone has a particular accent? It might seem obvious: You hear someone pronounce words in a way that is different from 'normal' and connect it to other people from a specific ...

Growing up in Manchester, Mia Tanswell didn't give her accent much thought - until her first week at university in Loughborough. "I knew people were going to notice that I was northern and that I didn ...

How the politics of raised a’s and disappearing g’s briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race. By Matt Flegenheimer Haley Stevens had heard quite enough from people who had heard quite enough ...

On this episode of the Valley 101 podcast, we speak with ASU linguist Peter Joseph Torres to explore if Arizonans have an accent. The existence of a distinct "Arizona accent" has been a topic of ...

From "wooder" to "jawn," it's a sound that is instantly recognizable, but the Philadelphia accent is more than just a few famous words. It's a piece of the city's identity. "As soon as you hear it," ...

A quality improvement initiative at Ocean University Medical Center found that reinstating hands-on urinary catheter competency training was associated with a 46% reduction in CAUTIs and improved ...

Source: Grok / xAI Most of us are taught, from a young age, not to make assumptions about others based on their appearance. Or we learn, through experience, that the visible characteristics of a ...

Anyone who speaks a language other than their mother tongue has inevitably had moments of self-doubt about their accent: “Do they understand me? Do I sound silly? Is my pronunciation okay?” While it’s ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

In modern organizations, leaders tacitly assume that good ideas rise on their merits: The most compelling argument wins, or the clearest insight gains traction. In principle, expertise, evidence, and ...