That’s the challenge facing Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee: portraying a working-class Mancunian accent from three centuries ago.

Marvel star Simu Liu offered a lesson in how to correctly pronounce his last name, explaining that he prefers the pronunciation of "Lee-You” while noting the Mandarin pronunciation can be difficult.

Did 17th-century immigrants to the 13 colonies have modern British accents? First, we need to figure out what a “British accent” is. Accents are pretty complicated things. Linguistically speaking, the ...

Red Fort blast: Muzammil Ahmad Ganai, Adeel Ahmed Rather, Shaheen Saeed Ansari and Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay have been sent to a 10-day NIA custody. According to a ...

There is one accent that is often rated as the most prestigious - Received Pronunciation. But what is RP and how did it come about? Lynda Mugglestone is a Professor of the History of English at the ...

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Practically the moment the familiar vowel symbols for British English were published, they plummeted drastically out of fashion. This video explains how and why. WWE star Hulk Hogan’s cause of death ...

Speaking in a scouse accent means you are more likely to be deemed a criminal, according to a new study identifying which harmful stereotypes about certain regional accents continue. Whereas people ...

PREJUDICE against certain accents have raised serious concerns about bias in the criminal justice system. A group of 180 people listened to recordings of 10 different accents in a study conducted by ...

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For the last 50 years Received Pronunciation has been rated as the most ‘prestigious’ accent. But how did it come about? Show more There is one accent that is often rated as the most prestigious - ...