The Tyne Bridge in Newcastle. Students and professionals from the North of England are frequently mocked for their accent (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Regional accents are ...

A new survey has revealed what people think are the "friendliest" and "most relaxing" accents in the UK — and Geordie surely isn't high enough on the list. More than 1,500 people were asked their ...

Pronouncing the letter R at the end of words is a dying feature of England’s regional accents, researchers at Lancaster University found – part of a broader trend for accents to become more ...

Gen Z Americans are impersonating British accents at an incredible volume — and it’s all thanks to the latest UK invasion of TV shows, the Guardian reported. Kyra Green, a 26-year-old New Yorker, ...

Recordings of voices from the 1950s, the 1980s and 1990s on a new Web site show that older pronunciations like "toon" for town and "coo" for cow are fading, replaced with more standard forms, ...

Accents not only help us to distinguish where someone may originate from, but also influence how we perceive their character and their capabilities. For instance, research has shown that we tend to ...

BRADFORD, England, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A rrested and tortured back home, Khalil, one of the first Syrian refugees to be resettled in Britain, is finding it harder to adapt to a new ...