A good Scottish accent brings images of bagpipes, kilts, and dramatically weathered cliffs to mind—but a bad one can make you look like a bogging bampot. The difference lies in the pronunciation, ...

Can your accent make you sound aggressive? Exeter City football manager Gary Caldwell thinks so—he blamed his Scottish accent for his being sent off the pitch for the second time this season. After ...

iPhone 4S voice recognition app seems to struggle with understanding dialects. Oct. 28, 2011— -- Siri, the state-of-the-art voice recongition app on the new iPhone 4S, is having some translation ...

Catch yourselves on! A survey has revealed that the television show "Derry Girls" and actor Liam Neeson have some of the hardest accents for Americans to understand. The survey carried out by language ...

Caleb Landry Jones, the Texas-born actor, debuted a convincing Scottish accent at the Venice Film Festival press conference for Luc Besson’s “Dogman,” which is world premiering in competition at the ...

Imagine a world in which Shrek, the titular ogre in the beloved DreamWorks film, boasted a Canadian accent. Okay, it’s not too far-fetched given Mike Myers hails from the Canadian province Ontario.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Regional accents may be more prominent on radio and television in today's Britain, but the "Queen's English" remains the preferred accent for call centres and promoting ...

Amanda Cole is affiliated with The Accentism Project which she runs along with Dr Rob Drummond to raise awareness and challenge accentism. Can your accent make you sound aggressive? Exeter City ...