With just 11 days before the end of 2013, The New York Times posted a dialect quiz on its website that drew in millions of readers, making it the site's most popular page for the year. The quiz is ...

If you've ever found yourself wondering "what accent do I have?" be assured of one thing—everyone has one. Most Americans don't think they have an accent, but if you've ever traveled around the ...

What do you call that carbonated flavored drink that comes out of a fountain at fast food restaurants? Pop; soda; seltzer? Well, depending on what you say can determine where you are from. That is the ...

What do you call your grandmother? Do the words but and put rhyme? Would you eat a bread roll, a bap, a bun or a cob? “There are a lot of distinct dialects in the UK for a small land mass,” says ...

As we noticed in the American Accent Quiz, as much as we're all part of the same country, many of us sound different. We also have different outlooks, attitudes, education, traditions and more. It's ...

Linguistics professor Bert Vaux explains how he created the data that turned into The New York Times' popular dialect test. The Man Behind The Dialect Quiz With just 11 days before the end of 2013, ...