I hate when people tell me I sound like I'm from California, because I assume that's a nicer way of telling me that I…

OK, so we already know that American women are on the forefront of linguistic innovation: we vocal-fry just like Ke$ha!…

In the last few years, young American women have started utilizing a low, growly part of their vocal register known as…

I have a speech impediment. It is not a lisp, or a stutter, or a habit of swallowing letters or softening r's into…