You've probably been wondering how to get accented letters into your words when preparing documents using word processors like Microsoft Word. How do you get to include them? As it turns out, the ...

Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age-matched peers exposed to ...

I'm sharing how I pronounce some everyday words with my Eastern Kentucky Appalachian accent! I invite you to duet with me or ...

I'm putting my eastern Kentucky accent to the test by saying a list of common words and inviting you to join me! Let me know ...

I used to have an editor who frowned on the use in newspaper copy of the French expressions I learned in high school. When I persisted in adding bon mots, or choice words, to stories, he laid down the ...

In Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog,” the firefly Ray says he has a Cajun accent because he was “born and bred in the bayou!” While that may be true for Ray, the voice actor portraying him, Jim ...

Americans have a sort of fascination with the English accent. It's entranced and captivated us for centuries, not to mention all of the British-accented hot actors du jour (I'm looking at you, Andrew ...

Contrary to general belief, most bilinguals have an accent in one of their languages. In a first post, I discussed this longstanding myth and examined such aspects as the no accent age limit (it is ...

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at ...

One of my two-year-old twins has just started nursery. She is extremely articulate and surprises me every day with the leaps in her language and vocabulary. I say this as a very proud and an openly ...