Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. University of Reading provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Markle, a native of Los Angeles, appeared ...

Vaclav Brezina (v.brezina@lancaster.ac.uk) is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University. The research presented in this article has been supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant ...

For decades, Jon Briggs says his crisp British accent landed him top jobs as a TV presenter, a commercial voice actor and the U.K.’s voice for Apple Inc.’s virtual assistant Siri. Those days are over.

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...

There are many differences between British and American punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Neither version is more correct than the other; which version you should use just depends on who your ...