This story is part of a partnership between the Montgomery Advertiser and the Living Democracy program at Auburn University. Now in its 13th year, the program disperses students across rural Alabama ...

Nashville's part of a region called the southern dialect zone. While Tennessee has seen an influx of new residents from states like California and New York, that's not all it takes to shift an area's ...

ELBA − “Fixin' to," "y’all" and Thanksgivin'” are distinctive words of the South that reflect cultural identity. Those distinctions caught the ear of Anna Head Spence while she was growing up in the ...

If you say the word "rat" aloud, does it sound like you're talking about the rodent or the opposite of left? If you say "far," are you talking about a blaze or a distance? Your answer might be the ...