“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 ...

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

A study published in January 2024 by language learning platform Preply found that the Shetland dialect is the hardest in the ...

“Americans often listen to vowels to judge how much of an accent someone has,” Campbell-Kibler said. Then, not based on the recordings, participants were asked how accented they thought the ...

If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

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