Where we come from matters. Our origins form an important part of a distinctive personality, which can become a group identity when we share these origins. More often than not, our use of language, ...
The UK's "friendliest" and "most relaxing" accents have been revealed, with one accent taking the crown. A survey involving ...
Charlotte has been faking her Welsh accent to her fellow players from the start of The Traitors. (BBC screengrab) Our accents can reveal a great number of things about us, from where we grew up to ...
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 ...
Before she started university, Beth Beddall had never really thought about her Black Country accent. But when she started attending seminars during her undergraduate course at Durham University in ...
A pet peeve of many Irish people living abroad is to be referred to as a resident of the UK when people mix up our accents (or simply don’t know the difference). How good are we ourselves, however, at ...
People who have a Yorkshire accent sound 25 times more trustworthy than someone with a Brummie accent, according to new data. In a poll commissioned by OnBuy, 2,221 people listened to 15 accents from ...
A new AI voice-cloning tool from a British firm claims to be able to reproduce a range of UK accents more accurately than some of its US and Chinese rivals. Because much of the data traditionally used ...
Regional English accents are dying out because children are picking up American phrases from TikTok, Netflix and Disney, an author has warned. Nicola Chester, who has also worked as a school librarian ...
Consider this scenario. A Nigerian student studying at a UK university hesitates before contributing to a seminar discussion. When he finally does, a fellow student snickers at his accent. The ...
From the moment we are born (and even before that, in utero), we tune into the languages around us. This includes the accents they are spoken in. Studies have found that infants show a preference for ...