The Philadelphia dialect features a focused avoidance of the “th” sound, the swallowing of the L in lots of words, and wooder instead of water, among a zillion other things. In Pittsburgh ...

“The Philadelphia accent is one of the best-studied accents in the world ... she is specifically looking at the reasons behind changes in the pronunciation of various words, such as "plate" and the ...

People who speak with the Philadelphia English dialect, Sneller explained, use what’s called a “split short-a system,” talking about the sound speakers make when they say a word like “trap.” ...

The Philadelphia accent has been in the news quite a bit ... up in Philadelphia don’t know that others don’t know that word,” said Muffy Siegel, a Temple University linguist who has written ...

It doesn’t mean that the Philadelphia accent is going away completely ... are starting to fade a bit. Is there one word or phrase you hear that tells you a person is definitely from Philadelphia?

A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving ... sounds are closer to "e'' so words like "eight" and "snake" are ...