Where we come from matters. Our origins form an important part of a distinctive personality, which can become a group identity when we share these origins. More often than not, our use of language, ...

Before she started university, Beth Beddall had never really thought about her Black Country accent. But when she started attending seminars during her undergraduate course at Durham University in ...

UK accents perceived as lower status were more often linked to crimes such as theft, fraud and assault, regardless of the speaker’s actual behavior. (via Wesley Tingey on Unsplash) (CN) — The way we ...

A new poll has revealed which British accent members of the public favour - and there's a surprising winner. The London accent has been officially named the UK's favourite regional accent, according ...

A pet peeve of many Irish people living abroad is to be referred to as a resident of the UK when people mix up our accents (or simply don’t know the difference). How good are we ourselves, however, at ...

A new AI voice-cloning tool from a British firm claims to be able to reproduce a range of UK accents more accurately than some of its US and Chinese rivals. Because much of the data traditionally used ...

TikTok has allowed accents once considered 'unsexy' to find audiences who think they are hot, including the 'exotic' West Midlands dialects. Videos by creators with regional accents have spread across ...