English language

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and...

Cambridge University Press has revealed the results of its global study into the language used around the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

The word 'populism' has been announced as the Cambridge Dictionary 2017 Word of the Year.

Men are two to three times more likely than women to be mentioned when it comes to discussing sport and sporting achievement, according to new...

Regional diversity in dialect words and pronunciations could be diminishing as much of England falls more in line with how English is spoken in London...

An app that tries to guess your regional accent based on your pronunciation of 26 words and colloquialisms will help Cambridge academics track the...

A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the Verb Second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people...

A 13th-century manuscript of Arthurian legend once owned by the Knights Templar is one of the star attractions of a new exhibition opening today at...

English speakers who are 18 or under use the word ‘like’ in conversation over five times as often as speakers who are over 70; ‘because’ is the most...