People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research has found.
Cambridge 探花直播 Press has revealed聽the results of its global study into the language used around the 2018 FIFA World Cup聽in Russia.
探花直播word 'populism' has been announced as the聽Cambridge Dictionary聽2017 Word of the Year.聽
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 research by language experts at Cambridge 探花直播 Press.
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 and the south-east, according to the first results from a free app developed by Cambridge researchers.
An app that tries to guess your regional accent based on your pronunciation of 26 words and colloquialisms will help Cambridge academics track the movement and changes to English dialects in the modern era.
A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the Verb Second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people acquire language.
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 Cambridge 探花直播 Library.
English speakers who are 18 or under use the word 鈥榣ike鈥 in conversation over five times as often as speakers who are over 70; 鈥榖ecause鈥 is the most misspelled English word globally; the word 鈥榣ove鈥 is said and written over six times more frequently than the word 鈥榟ate鈥. We know all of this because of a multibillion-word database called the Cambridge English Corpus.
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