We had dinner with this girl last weekend who has been living in England for the past 9 months. During the course of conversation, she kept "accidentally" slipping into a British dialect. I happen to ...

Over the past two decades, Taylor Swift has categorized her music, relationships and style in eras. But researchers have found another thing that Swift seems to change often — and that is the way she ...

We've all played around with an accent as a goof but have never maybe realized just how difficult it is to make it believable. I'm no expert on accents, but luckily the internet has already provided ...

“Welcome to Ireland,” intones Christopher Walken over drone shots of lush green farmland, his unique halting speech patterns – New York via the moon – only occasionally troubled by the mangled specter ...

I'm sharing how my Appalachian dialect shapes the way I naturally pronounce certain words, and why it's important to ...

To work on an accent with another person, a degree of trust is required. They have to make themselves very vulnerable to you. Many actors coming to that process are filled with fear. Now, I have ...

In Boston, there are reports of people pronouncing the letter “r.” Down in Tennessee, people are noticing a lack of a Southern drawl. And Texans have long worried about losing their distinctive twang.

They’re smooth talkers. These accents are the most attractive in America — and shockingly, Long Island and Staten Island made the Top 10. The Cajun accent was crowned the most attractive in the nation ...

Peaky Blinders fans, get ready! One of the aspects of the series that raised the most conversation was not only the thrilling ...

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