"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.

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 ...

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 ...

This story originally aired on February 3, 2013. If you have ever wondered why there seems to be no semblance of order to the way English words are spelled or pronounced, there is a logical ...

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 ...