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'My trademark is my accent': Acadians embracing their brand of French
CBC via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoJacques Alphonse Doucet was in high school when he was at a Burger King in Quebec and ran into a...
A Look at Spanish-speaking Countries and Regional Dialects
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLike English, Spanish is a global language with nearly 600 million Spanish speakers worldwide. There are many Spanish-speaking countries, from the 21 nations with Spanish as their official language ...
Dialect in the D: How do locals and visitors pronounce Detroit?
WXYZ-TV Detroit· 4 days agoHow do locals and visitors pronounce Michigan's largest city? There seems to be a consensus among locals
What Is a Gyatt and Where Does the Word Originate?
Parents via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMisuse of AAVE in Internet Culture The semantic shift of the word gyat represents a longstanding and complicated tradition with AAVE. The appropriation of the term is another example ...
Dictionary brings dying Beijing slang back to life
Mountain View Telegraph· 3 days agoThe New Beijing Dialect Dictionary, which includes 10,200 entries, is the first of its kind published since Xu Shirong's Beijing Local Dialect Dictionary ...
Woman shares dramatically different accents she uses—"Code-Switching"
Newsweek· 3 days agoTrish Bautista from Los Angeles, California, shared a video on TikTok (@trish_bautista) detailing...
After 20 years, why does Monster Hunter Wilds have Palicoes speak human languages? Because "there's...
GamesRadar+ via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThere are so many more monsters around in general that you could be getting attacked from any angle...
2024 NBA Finals: The elephant in the room — Luka Dončić's defense isn't good enough for the Mavs to...
WSB Radio· 3 days agoThe Mavericks call this “elephant hunting” as these Western Conference champions routinely found...
Yo! Do you have a Jersey accent? How other people hear NJ
New Jersey 101.5 FM· 6 days agoYou can't mistake a Jersey accent. New Jersey’s accent has been crowned as “America’s most grating...
Don’t Call It an ‘Ethnic’ Grocery Store
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLast year, Americans bought a half a billion packets of Shin Ramyun, the spicy, beefy Korean instant noodle. The bold red-and-black packaging feels...
