Accent bias remains deeply embedded in academic institutions, where a hierarchy of accent prestige continues to shape ...

Learn how to speak with a more American accent! Marina shares some tips. As US migration rates drop, life on the San Diego border has changed Suspect in hit-and-run that left teen dead is on parole ...

Accent isn’t just sound, it’s culture and connection. You’ve heard it on TV or at the stadium: a coach, slightly southern-accented, saying something that just sounds right. That moment, whether real ...

Nashville's part of a region called the southern dialect zone. While Tennessee has seen an influx of new residents from states like California and New York, that's not all it takes to shift an area's ...

Tom Petty intended Southern Accents, released in 1985, to be a concept album about coming to terms with his American South heritage. It never quite reached that point, as commercial concerns muscled ...

These are just a few gasps I uttered after learning that the Southern accent was slowly disappearing. Bless those evildoers’ hearts; they don't understand that such a tragedy must not occur. Y’all can ...

If you thought Reese Witherspoon’s Tennessee accent was spot-on as June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line,” you were right – she grew up in Nashville. Actors often work hard to lose Southern accents – ...

State Capital in Jackson, Mississippi. Credit - chmeredith, CC SA 2.0. State Capital in Jackson, Mississippi. Credit - chmeredith, CC SA 2.0. The southern accent is slowly disappearing in parts of U.S ...

My Southern accent is usually the first thing people notice — both during my time at university and in the workforce. While many have been impressed by what they saw as a unique accent, I’ve also been ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine's visits to relatives in New York City included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 ...