New research published in the journal Frontiers in Communication has taken this one step further after analysing certain UK accents and the behaviours often associated with them. The results ...

As a sociolinguist, I’ve been researching the accents and dialects of English spoken in Wales for more than a decade. In one study, I examined several thousand tweets featuring the words ...

When she replied telling him she went to a state school, he said: "You must be intimidated by us and how we speak ... says there is a "hierarchy of accents" in the UK, with accents from ...

Why did Charlotte fake a Welsh accent in The Traitors UK Season 3? Charlotte's motivation for the accent was surprisingly strategic. "It got me on the show and it got me to the end," she explained.

"Urban accents across the UK are associated ... Here are some of the words and phrases the BBC encountered this year that helped to unravel the changes taking place in world around us.

The fact that it ranks above any regional UK accents is also surprising, as we could easily assume that accents that are more familiar to us may have a more soothing effect." ...

A study led by the University of Cambridge in partnership with Nottingham Trent University has revealed that individuals sporting a "posh" English accent are deemed least likely to partake in criminal ...

An accent can often make or break a whole movie, or career. Brad Pitt’s infamously bad Irish accent in Snatch or Troy could convince you the man has zero talent if they’re his only performances you’ve ...