During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63 percent of the vote. A great deal of national attention was ...

During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63 percent of the vote. A great deal of national attention was ...

Pineville, W.Va. — In a county beyond the reach of any four-lane highway, a young couple chuckles and swivels in their chairs as they start telling for posterity the story of how they met. "You want ...

PINEVILLE, W.Va. – In a county beyond the reach of any four-lane highway, a young couple chuckles and swivels in their chairs as they start telling for posterity the story of how they met. "You want ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We may think of home as a place or feeling, but for Rachel Hargrave, home is connected to how we speak. Rachel Hargrave is one of 14 recipients of the Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Everyone who has heard the stereotypes of Appalachian hillbillies and every “misguided individual” who has described Appalachian speech as incorrect should take a look at “Talking Appalachian,” edited ...

A page from an English dictionary listinf=g a definition of a word next to its phonetic transcription in standard American English. (Photo by Rob Hobson on Unsplash) Born in southwestern Ohio, my ...

Editor’s note: Read the full report on West Virginia University linguist Kirk Hazen’s foray into Pineville with his West Virginia Dialect Project on Page 7A. United Way of Southern West Virginia ...