Hockey players are famous for their distinctive jargon, but while researching this phenomenon, a linguist and hockey player realized another interesting pattern in hockey speech: American hockey ...

University of Rochester linguist Andrew Bray started out studying the evolution of the trademark sports jargon used in hockey for his master's thesis. For instance, a hockey arena is a "barn," while ...

Do you have a tendency to hit the 'r' sound flatly and somewhat heavily on words like 'hair' or 'dare?' Do you ask for ...