Pronouncing the letter R at the end of words is a dying feature of England’s regional accents, researchers at Lancaster University found – part of a broader trend for accents to become more ...

In this video, I compare the standard Mandarin Chinese pronunciation with the Beijing accent for several everyday words. I ...

Southern accents have nuances to them. Here, a linguist explains how they came to be and what the key differences are. Beth Gwinn/Getty Images There isn't one thing that makes a Southern accent. The ...

The U.S. has dozens of distinct regional accents reflecting not just place, but also race and ancestry. But these days, the world isn't as regionally confined as it used to be: Media comes from all ...

I’m sharing a fun list of words that people pronounce differently based on where they’re from, featuring my own Appalachian ...

LONDON — Anyone who’s been to a soccer match in Blighty will attest to the huge cultural significance of regional accents; a popular taunt across the terraces is “if you can’t talk proper, shut your ...

Although the United States is an international melting pot and the average American makes a dozen moves in a lifetime, regional accents are alive and well. In fact, regional accents are becoming ...

Virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant are becoming more popular in the enterprise conference rooms, and that means a virtual assistant in a conference room in Boston may ...

If your accent breaks from the mainstream, it can hit you in the pocketbook, a new paper made public by the National Bureau of Economic Research says. The paper by Jeffrey Grogger, Andreas Steinmayr ...