If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

Linguists believe Black English might have originated from West African or Creole languages. Getty Images Later, I emigrated to the U.S. to teach linguistics at Wayne State University and began ...