Younger generations are starting to sound less like their parents' accent than ever.

One popular theory dates back to the American Civil War. Before the Civil War, the South did not have nearly as much linguistic variation as it does today. Back then, the Southern accent was heavily ...

ATLANTA — It's a subject that comes up from time to time and can cause both deep discussion and great consternation around the South: The region's iconic accent is fixin' to disappear. Most recently, ...

Bid farewell to the Southern twang. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But Georgians are high-tailing away from that grits-and-gravy drawl faster than a scalded dog. A collaborative study between ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 ...

In a recently published study, linguists at the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Brigham Young University reported that white Georgians seem to be losing their classic Southern accent.

If you thought Reese Witherspoon’s Tennessee accent was spot-on as June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line,” you were right – she grew up in Nashville. Actors often work hard to lose Southern accents – ...

In the 19 years since she released her first song, Taylor Swift's music been through several transitions, changing from country, to pop, to indie folk, and almost every genre in between. Now, a study ...