Lauren Guest stood high above the crowd waiting to enter the New Jersey Renaissance Faire on May 31. She was communicating with them, though her lips moved soundlessly. Guest is an American Sign ...

Smith Island and Tangier Island natives have a distinctive accent and dialect. Popular belief holds their speech is directly descended from Elizabethan English, the language of Shakespeare. Could this ...

If you visit the oystering and crabbing villages of Smith Island or Tangier Island in eastern Chesapeake Bay, you’ll encounter a local dialect that still echoes with the sounds and words of ...

SPRINGDALE — The notion that Ozark Mountain residents spoke a form of Elizabethan English was good for tourism in the early 20th century but it was a bit of an exaggeration, said Susan Young, outreach ...

“1. Shakspere is in many passages an unintelligible author to those who read him without a knowledge of the wordforms and word-meanings, the pronunciation, the syntax, and the idioms of Elizabethan ...