Let’s dig deep and find out why certain names simply fall out of fashion. When you hear names like Gladys or Herbert or Doris, you probably automatically think of old people, but why is that?

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Believe it or not, Michigan — the home of ope-sayers and pop-lovers — does actually have an accent of its own. The Michigan accent is a part of a more wide-ranging regional accent called the Inland ...

If you call it pop, shop at "Meijers" and "Krogers" or vacation at Mack-in-awe, you're likely speaking the Michigan accent: You're a true Michigander. The Michigan accent, a regional accent of ...

BOSTON — Some aspects of speech are as Southern as pecan pie. Consider the vowel shift that makes the word pie sound more like “pah.” While that pronunciation is found from Florida to Texas, a new ...

Ah, but the issue of dialect is actually much too fascinating to call the whole thing off, according to linguistic research into North American dialects. People commonly assume that regional dialects ...