Study aims to help automated phone lines launched by councils understand provincial terms and tones Gabriella Swerling is Social and Religious Affairs Editor for The Telegraph. She specialises in ...

Linguistic detectives believe Shakespeare would have said ‘divil’ instead of ‘devil’ and would have drunk a cup of ‘tay’ ...

Banter’ about where you’re from or how you speak is harder to define than racism or sexism, but it is damaging.

London, Feb 24 (PTI) AI could soon better understand people’s accent and dialect, thanks to a landmark study being led by the University of Sheffield. The study, led by Dr Chris Montgomery from the ...

Now PLEASEEEEE stop asking me why I have an American accent,” Idris Elba's daughter, Isan Elba wrote, explaining her American accent.

Back in the 1980s, we blamed Aussie soaps Neighbours and Home and Away for reshaping the way teenagers spoke. Today, that ...

When he didn't notice any "yinzer" accents in "The Pitt," Tom Sarabok took matters into his own hands. The 27-year-old ...

Experts from language learning platform Babbel quizzed 2,000 singletons about the accents they find the most and least attractive.

However, when the trailer – and, later, a full clip – dropped for Saltburn director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic novel, we got a preview of Jacob’s take on the Northern ...

The actress, who is best known for playing Kevin Costner’s on-screen daughter Beth in the hit US drama, has dropped the southern drawl as she steps into the role of a detective-turned-teacher who ...