Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

A new paper finds that while popular AI models may not be outwardly racist, they are covertly racist when it comes to African American English. Reading time 3 minutes A new paper found that large ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

With each version of large language models like ChatGPT, developers have gotten better at filtering out racist content absorbed through sources like the internet. But researchers have discovered more ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on the ...

Test your knowledge! Can you guess the British English and American English words? Find out if you speak British or American ...

What problems have you had when listening to native speakers of English? What techniques have you used to improve your listening skills? Thank you for all your comments. This topic is now closed.

American vs British English: If you have ever found yourself reading an article and wondering why one writer says “color” while another writes “colour,” you are definitely not alone. American and ...

Why do Maine lobstermen sound so different from Texas cowboys? Will Spanish ever become the dominant language of America? And how is English linked to issues of race, gender, and class? In this ...