Quintessential New York pronunciations like "dawg," "cawfee" and "fuhgeddaboudit" could slowly be things of the past, a new study revealed. The Word Finder asked more than 3,000 Americans which ...

Linguistics professor Bert Vaux explains how he created the data that turned into The New York Times' popular dialect test. A Closer Look At The New York Times Dialect Quiz What do you call that ...

Elyse Graham, who writes under the pen name E. J. White, recently released "You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English." A new book from a Stony Brook University professor explores ...

Alexa Herrera is a digital producer with the CBS News New York web team. She previously worked with WUFT and WTSP in Florida as a digital producer. She's a Long Island native. Quintessential New York ...