And I'm Robert Siegel. P: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. He calls it a snapshot of our rapidly changing language, mergers of sounds that used to be different, splits of sounds that used to be ...

As you watch your children open their Christmas presents this morning, you might be pondering these linguistic questions: Why do the boxes on toys always read “SOME assembly required,” even though you ...

Why is the English language so jacked up? Why do sometimes we pronounce "i" as "i" and other times as "e"? I'm thinking of starting a language where no "i" can be pronounced "e." It's just disrespect.

The old vowels are ’oot’: Canadians are changing how we speak, though none of us are noticing. Linguists might know why. Out with “oot.” No more “aboot.” Canada is talking with a New Speak. In a ...

Edsol Crowder thinks he’s hearing a new crop of mispronunciations and wonders whether others are hearing the same sounds. For instance, he says, a conservative radio talk-show host repeatedly says ...

"Northern Cities Vowel Shift" is the first track from Accelerate Every Voice, the second release by Grammy Award winning pianist and composer Cory Smythe, out June 12, 2020 on Pyroclastic Records.

I have never heard The Beatles speaking and I would have never known they were British until someone told me. I’ve also heard some American singers sing with a British accent. But there surely must be ...

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds ...