Business Insider spoke to Philip Gooden, author and expert on the origins of the English language, about why the variety of English used in the US is different – and more traditional – to the ...

If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

In the east, Newfoundland sat in isolation, and the separate colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had little to do with one another. In the centre, was the large ...

The Sussex kids may live in Montecito and not Buckingham Palace, but their British roots are still very much part of their identity. In an interview on The Drew Barrymore Show—which will be ...