As some pointed out, this pronunciation mix-up stems from what's called the cot–caught merger, a linguistic sound change in which North American English speakers began to pronounce words like ...

But one linguist has jumped to the defense of how Americans view and pronounce words from foreign lands, particularly well-known French words, names and phrases. Woody, an American linguist who'd ...

American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. In 1999, the Harvard Dialect Survey, a research project conducted by ...

Google Search will now check your pronunciation of unfamiliar words with the help of machine learning. It’s also added new visual prompts when you search for the definition or translation of ...

As Old English evolved into Middle and then modern English, the word became asken and then ask. But the ax pronunciation stuck around—and ax and ask coexisted for a long time.

Along with pronunciation, word use in the two countries began to differ. Bill Bryson, in Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States, lists a number of words ...