The first and only time I was on national television, I was giving a food tour to a travel TV show host around the San Gabriel Valley, proudly extolling the virtues of Cantonese roast duck, ...

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Here’s something hella cool: Californians have one of the sexiest accents in the country when it comes to dating, according to a new study. The “easy-going” Californian accent came third place on a ...

A team of researchers is canvassing California to try and nail down some of the linguistic peculiarities native to its various regions. Conventional wisdom holds that, aside from garish movie ...