When you travel around the UK you often hear all sorts of old words and phrases that you have NO IDEA what they mean. Although discovering lots of terms that only exist in certain places isn't as ...

Where we are born not only determines how we speak but also how we taste our food and drink. The taste preferences of the UK's major regions have been analysed by Professor Andy Taylor, an expert in ...

According to a poll the "Welsh accent" is the third most soothing accent in the entire UK. It came just behind a "Scottish accent" and an "Irish accent". Ahead of World Sleep Day on 17 March, sleep ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are struggling to get to grips with the country's rich vocabulary of regional dialects to such an extent that they are "teetering on the brink of extinction," according to a ...

Google Translate’s iPhone app now includes several regional options for speech input and output. This means that someone using the app to speak English, for example, isn’t stuck listening to someone ...

Welsh people have had their say on a map that claims to show the different dialects of the UK. But, as many pointed out on social media, there were a lot of things wrong with it. The Map of British ...

A US woman who relocated to the UK has shared her confusion over certain British words and phrases, including "lollipop lady" ...

Chinese students in an English class. Traditional English could one day become a family of languages, just as Latin once did Traditional English is set to fragment into a multitude of dialects as it ...