Travel to Miami, and you might hear people say 'get down from the car' instead of 'get out of the car.' Miami Herald/Getty Images “We got down from the car and went inside.” “I made the line to pay ...

A Florida International University professor claims to have discovered an emerging new dialect that has evolved from a combination of Spanish and English in South Florida over 60 years, following the ...

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 ...

Many in Miami first come to realize they speak ‘Miami English’ when they, well, leave Miami. In the U.S., there are hundreds of different dialects across different regions, cities and communities. The ...

A man I know recently spent several weeks visiting his native South Africa. Upon his return to the United States, he found himself one day passing through a certain section of Oakland. Everyone on the ...

What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the ...

“He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.” These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans. In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance. According ...