This video shares words from the old Appalachian dialect and mountain sayings passed down through generations in the Appalachian Mountains. These are real words used in the hills and hollers of ...

America has always been a patchwork of voices — drawls, twangs, clipped vowels and long ones — but many people now admit they are softening, editing or abandoning the very […] ...

We may think of home as a place or feeling, but for Rachel Hargrave, home is connected to how we speak. Rachel Hargrave is one of 14 recipients of the Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship.