There are few experiences more shudder-inducing than having to listen to a recording of your own voice. Something to do with the way we hear vibrations through our bones when we talk, versus the way ...

Whether you speak Cockney slang, have a Scouse lilt or are full-on Geordie, there are no shortage of accents across the UK. Now a study suggests children as young as five start to link them to social ...

The star of Netflix’s new Agatha Christie drama has said she would be taken more seriously if she “spoke with a posher accent ...

It was a week after Kim Hall’s surgery when her sister first noticed something different about her voice. “My mom and my sister came to visit me, and my sister said to my mom, ‘oh, she sounds very ...

Accentism – discriminating against someone because of their accent – has a long history in the UK, where the way someone speaks is often an easy way to tell their social class. People with ...

Gemma King receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In two of the biggest films released this summer, Gladiator II and Nosferatu, most actors seem to be speaking like they’re in a ...

Professor, Linguistics, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University If you live in the UK or are familiar with its wide range of accents and dialects, you can probably tell the ...