You may be able to pull off a Spanish accent when showing off your Antonio Banderas impression, but truly losing your native accent and replacing it with a new one is a lot harder to do. The way you ...
We sometimes call it "the Queen's English" or "BBC English." You know the type of thing: a crisp, cut-glass, slightly nasal voice saying "how now brown cow." It was the accent used by the English ...
A solid Spanish accent, like Alfred Molina uses to portray Diego Rivera in “Frida,” makes a performance all the more believable. A questionable one, however, like Al Pacino uses as Tony Montana in ...
Southern accents have nuances to them. Here, a linguist explains how they came to be and what the key differences are. Beth Gwinn/Getty Images There isn't one thing that makes a Southern accent. The ...
When performed well, the lilting brogue of the Irish accent sounds mellifluous and musical. When performed poorly, it can sound campy—even egregious. But what makes one Irish accent good and another ...
A voice lecturer at the University of Melbourne has dropped a TikTok explaining why some folks pronounce the word “no” as “naur” in an Australian accent and it is quality viewing. Amy Hume, who works ...
There's no strict recipe for the Rhode Island accent: An old-timer from Charlestown won't necessarily sound the same as someone from Cumberland or Cranston. But there are certain ingredients that ...
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...
In northern England ‘dinner’ is the word often used for a midday meal and ‘tea’ for an evening meal, but in southern England ‘tea’ is often a light afternoon meal and ‘dinner’ is the evening meal.