No one has ever said that there is anything unique about a couple of vowels in Durham,” says Walt Wolfram, a North Carolina ...

“Vowels carry a lot of accents. So what’s actually happened is her brain has sort of created a change in the way her vowels sound and we as listeners match that to something we’re familiar ...

Accents are like personality quirks—they make us unique, spark conversations, and sometimes, let’s be real, drive people up ...

"Americans often listen to vowels to judge how much of an accent someone has," Campbell-Kibler said. For example, some people may pronounce "pen" so that it sounds to others like they are saying ...

A recent analysis into the most attractive regional accents in the UK has seen Manchester take the top spot for 2025. With an ...