San Antonio's new cowgirl-centric honky tonk will debut Wednesday, inviting patrons to boot scoot through its pink-accented interior to a playlist that favors female country artists. La Honky Tonk ...

Whether true or apocryphal, the anecdote demonstrates the strong connections among language, accents, and history. A new study, published in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, shows those ...

Cultural, political, or even violent conflict are likely to encourage people to strengthen their accents as they try to maintain social cohesion ...

KCRA 3’S ANDRES VALLE JOINS US LIVE IN VACAVILLE, WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COMING IN AND OUT OF A HARDWARE STORE GETTING READY AND GETTING THOSE LAST MINUTE SUPPLIES. SO, ANDRES, WHAT ARE PEOPLE ...

People from Scotland, Ireland and north-east England are better at being able to spot a fake accent than those from the South, a study has found. Dr Jonathan R Goodman, corresponding author of the ...

Earlier studies have shown that when groups of people want to indicate who they are for cultural reasons, their spoken accents tend to become stronger. [Related: Why people trust accents that ...

“I think it’s a very Irish thing to do accents,” said Saoirse Ronan in a 2018 interview. She’s also somewhat of an accent savant, having convincingly played a teenager from Sacramento and ...

The new paper focused exclusively on people from the UK and Ireland, but it’s a fair warning for those of us in North America about attempting those awful accents. “We found first that people ...

In the biggest study of its kind, drawing on 12,000 responses, the researchers found that participants across all groups were better than chance at detecting fake accents, succeeding just over 60% ...

From the broad Scottish brogue to the unmistakable Geordie twang, the UK is home to a bewilderingly diverse array of different accents. But while you might pride yourself on your knowledge of ...

While scrolling through social media the other day, I stumbled upon an app called Accents that lets any Mac owner use the fun accent colours that are built into the colourful iMacs. When I started ...