If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

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 ...

Wizards, royalty, and TV villains: Auditions that need British accents are everywhere. That makes an accurate accent a useful tool to have. From the different types of British accents to how to ...

Where we come from matters. Our origins form an important part of a distinctive personality, which can become a group identity when we share these origins. More often than not, our use of language, ...

MARYLAND. – Come to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and you’ll find a diverse range of accents. Emphasis from other parts of ...

A great deal of emphasis has been placed recently on the fact that the approaches to second language teaching and second dialect teaching are so similar that the instructor of standard English can ...

Q: I’ve been working on learning different British accents (I’m American) to help expand my range, but I’m having trouble distinguishing between the various accents and dialects. Help! —@Tom_Snout, ...

The 2025 slate of Oscar nominees recognizes many writers, directors and actors whose scripts and performances don’t necessarily reflect their own cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Greg Kwedar and ...

A new viral video of Meghan Markle has the internet convinced Mrs. Prince Harry has developed an English accent -- but some of Hollywood's most renown dialect coaches aren't so sure. The video in ...

Launched alongside the Pixel 4 back in October 2019, the Google Recorder app is an excellent transcription app that leverages Google’s powerful voice recognition and AI language processing. After ...