My girlfriend, Anne, and her brother, Steve, needed directions out of Providence, and I was happy to oblige. It was nearly midnight on a muggy June night in 1979, and we were standing by their green ...

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 ...

Accent expert and actor Amy Walker breaks down American accents in movies including ‘The Blindside,’ ‘The Departed,’ ‘Ladybird,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ ‘The Social Network,’ ‘Winter’s Bone,’ ‘The Town, ...

“Welcome to Ireland,” intones Christopher Walken over drone shots of lush green farmland, his unique halting speech patterns – New York via the moon – only occasionally troubled by the mangled specter ...

If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...