Dialect coach Catherine Charlton helped actors on HBO's John Adams miniseries nail down Colonial American accents.

Iranian missiles target northern Israel; One Nation tops the latest Newspoll as Labor and the Coalition slide; Alexander ...

Ponies: Katalin Vermes/Peacock; Knox: Andrea Miconi/Disney; Heated: Sabrina Lantos The hottest trend in Hollywood isn’t just perfecting the art of accent work anymore; it’s learning a whole new ...

I was almost lost for words in the 80s when ITN subtitled an interviewee in one of my reports from Northern Ireland about a terrorist attack. The editors defended what I regarded as an unspeakable ...

France’s dozens of regional languages may no longer be spoken by many, but they live on in regional accents, colouring vowel sounds and shaping intonation. More than half the country speaks French ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “At school, at university or in the mass media, it's common to consider having an accent a bit of a bad thing. It's not something ...

“At school, at university or in the mass media, it's common to consider having an accent a bit of a bad thing. It's not something positive,” says Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus, a sociolinguist at the ...

I HAD breakfast with Stanley Tucci once. Well, not quite with him, but a few feet away from him. Close enough to smell the coffee, far enough for him not to call security. I was speaking at the Dingle ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...