If we traveled in time to America at its founding, we would be as thrown by how people sounded as by the absence of ...

Fantasy books and films are a massive hit with both readers and spectators. Although the tales occur in a fictional realm, the characters always speak with British accents instead of American accents.

For 23 years, the subplot of Colin Frissell in "Love Actually" has raised questions about British accents and cultural perceptions. This video investigates whether Colin's accent sounds sophisticated ...

A convincing British accent can be surprisingly difficult for American actors, considering the vast differences between British and American English. One reason may be that British actors more often ...

There are people in your life you believed completely the first time you met them. Not because they said anything ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She created a montage of her son’s pretty convincing English accent. It seemed to affect his speech whenever he asked a question.

Bridget Jones’s Baby opens this week, its trailers blanketing televisions at gyms across this great land. (I assume that the only time anyone watches an actual commercial on an actual television these ...

During the prelude to the War of 1812, Britain was forcibly conscripting American sailors into the British navy by claiming the sailor had a British accent and was actually British. Had the American ...

A survey published this week by the French newspaper Le Parisien showed that to French ears, the British have the "second-sexiest foreign accent" in the world. Do fish flirt in regional accents?

An important part of many actors' work is to take on an accent that isn't their own. The American accent is one of the hardest to master, since it has so many variations depending on which part of the ...