Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Carolina has an extensive audio archive of local accents and dialects that contains thousands of recordings. Rhode Island, ...

The Irish immigrants in the United States over the last 250 years has left a lasting legacy, that being how Americans speak. The tapestry of American accents and dialects is a rich and diverse mosaic, ...

Macedonia, OH native Brandon Saraniti grew up thinking he didn’t have an accent. But that all changed back in 2018, when he moved to Washington, D.C. for college. He was at a party and struck up a ...

People in eastern New England have been dropping their R's for centuries, but that's starting to change – even as subtle regional differences remain. Rhode Island accents became a source of stigma ...