Lucknow: The State Education Institute (SIE), Prayagraj, has designed a first-of-its kind dialects dictionary in four volumes, containing 76,000 words in region-specific languages, including Bhojpuri, ...

Unlike most dictionaries of jazz and blues language, of which bandleader Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary and the glossary included in clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow's Really The Blues, both published in ...

Earlier in the year Joshua Katz, an intern with the New York Times' graphics team and a statistician at North Carolina State University, started an online survey looking at Americans' regional ...

This was a question that I should really have anticipated, but it took me by surprise. I had just talked to a packed marquee at the 2018 Hay Festival about why dialects of English are of such enduring ...

Back when I was in junior high school in South Carolina, a transfer student from California joined our homeroom class. On his first day there, he announced — for no apparent reason — “Man, I’m jonesin ...

This idiosyncratic, discursive dictionary was assembled to unravel the most unusual, obscure, and curious words, expressions, and proper or place names found on race records, the music industry trade ...