Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do Arizonans have an accent? Arizona Republic employees say common words to see whether an Arizona accent really exists.

On this episode of the Valley 101 podcast, we speak with ASU linguist Peter Joseph Torres to explore if Arizonans have an accent. The existence of a distinct "Arizona accent" has been a topic of ...

Sometimes, you can instantly tell where a person is from by the way they speak. A Southern drawl or a California vocal fry can give someone away. If you're around it all the time, you might not even ...