I tried to learn to speak like an office worker in Cincinnati – what can the science of accents reveal to make it easier?

The BBC had an “unofficial league table” of British accents, in which Birmingham was ranked the worst, one of the broadcaster’s most-esteemed war correspondents has said. In remarks at a University of ...

Many people tend to think a foreign accent is more interesting than the way they speak, because we tend to value things that are less common. Some people associate a British accent with someone being ...