Explore words and expressions by place.
Only places with enough reviewed vocabulary, editorial context, and guide depth appear here.
United States
Atlanta
Atlanta local language is shaped by a sprawling metropolitan geography, transportation systems, Black cultural innovation, food traditions, neighborhood life, and one of the world’s most influential hip-hop scenes.
Boston & New England
Boston is a major hub within Eastern New England English, but the vocabulary documented here operates at several different geographic scales.
Chicago
Chicago language combines Inland North regional English with city-specific transit, housing, winter-parking and food vocabulary.
Hawaiʻi
Hawaiʻi’s local language landscape includes ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi Creole (widely called Pidgin), local English, and many immigrant and community languages.
Los Angeles & Southern California
Los Angeles local language reflects a vast polycentric city, distinctive freeway grammar, strong neighborhood and regional identities, media culture, and weather shaped by the Pacific coast and surrounding mountains.
Miami & Miami-Dade
Miami local language grows from sustained Spanish-English contact, Cuban and wider Caribbean and Latin American migration, Black communities, tourism, and metropolitan life across Miami-Dade.
New Orleans
New Orleans has multiple local English varieties shaped by Black and White communities, migration, Louisiana’s multilingual history, neighborhood identity and major demographic change.
New York City
New York City language reflects five boroughs, migration, African American and Latino speech communities, neighborhood institutions, food culture, and regional grammar.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia local language works at several overlapping scales.
Pittsburgh & Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh sits at the center of a western Pennsylvania speech region whose vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and discourse habits have become unusually visible symbols of local identity.
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is a multi-city region whose language moves among San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, San José, the Peninsula, the East Bay, and surrounding communities.
Texas
Texas is linguistically too large and diverse for one accent or one city-centered slang list.
Washington, D.C. & the DMV
Washington, D.C.
United Kingdom
Birmingham
Birmingham English belongs to a linguistically diverse city whose local identity appears in ordinary place names, food vocabulary, terms of address, evaluation, and civic shorthand as well as accent.
Liverpool
Liverpool English, widely known as Scouse, is a distinctive regional variety shaped by the city's port history, migration, local identity, and changing social boundaries across Liverpool and Merseyside.
London
London speech contains several overlapping traditions, including Multicultural London English, Cockney, Standard Southern British English, heritage-language influence, and forms that have spread through grime, drill, social media, and everyday youth culture.
Newcastle & Tyneside
Newcastle sits at the center of Tyneside English, a documented regional variety with distinctive everyday vocabulary, grammar, discourse patterns, pronunciation, address terms, and civic language.
Scotland
Scotland has more than one linguistic tradition.
Colombia
Bogotá & the Altiplano
Bogotá has a capital-region language profile distinct from Medellín and from generic Colombian slang.
Medellín & Antioquia
Medellín belongs to the wider Paisa and Antioquian linguistic region and is also the birthplace of parlache, a documented urban social dialect that developed in popular and marginalized sectors before spreading through Colombian media and culture.