When a person hears someone talk, it usually doesn’t take long for them to key in on that person’s accent. In just a few syllables, the person who is listening might already be forming assumptions ...

How do you tell if someone has a particular accent? It might seem obvious: You hear someone pronounce words in a way that is different from 'normal' and connect it to other people from a specific ...

But it’s undeniable that New Zealanders do have a distinctive sound. A recent article by Stuff explainer editor Keith Lynch tried to get to the bottom of that distinctive sound: how New Zealand ...

The study has been undertaken by researchers at Lancaster University and Leiden University to understand how Lancastrian and Cumbrian accents have developed ...

John Gallagher talks to Rob Drummond about the accents of Greater Manchester and Robert McKenzie about differing attitudes towards northern and southern English accents. Show more How Manc are the ...

Filmmaker and folklore expert Michael Fortune recently wrote an article for thejournal.ie lamenting "the D4/ mid-Atlantic/ makey-up English accent" that he claims is "blighting" Ireland. He joined ...

Kiwis have the most socially attractive English accent outside of the motherland, eh. According to a BBC survey, the New Zealand accent is one of most charming and prestigious English accents outside ...