Believe it or not, Michigan — the home of ope-sayers and pop-lovers — does actually have an accent of its own. The Michigan accent is a part of a more wide-ranging regional accent called the Inland ...

If you call it pop, shop at "Meijers" and "Krogers" or vacation at Mack-in-awe, you're likely speaking the Michigan accent: You're a true Michigander. The Michigan accent, a regional accent of ...

The Californian accent is getting ready for its close-up. Stanford linguistics researcher Penny Eckhert says linguistic research tends to focus on communities east of the Mississippi and she is hoping ...

Accents are part of who people are. They carry history, identity, and pride. From the deep drawls of the American South to the lilting tones of northern England, these unique ways of speaking connect ...

Here’s what Pamela Vanderway is listening to in her car: “We milked the cows. We fed the chickens. We slopped the pigs. And then we went off to work.” And again. And again. The voice of the woman with ...

Everyone knows first impressions are important—and we don’t just make them based on sight. Beyond a chic outfit and well-coiffed hair, how a person sounds can also be a big factor when forming an ...

Accentism—discriminating against someone because of their accent—has a long history in the U.K., where the way someone speaks is often an easy way to tell their social class. People with working-class ...

"To be or not to be" may be the question, but there's another question that's been nagging Shakespeare scholars for a long time: What did Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio, Portia or Puck ...

Maybe it was all the pioneers from around Great Britain. Maybe it's just the laid-back way of life in the West. We're not sure where the Utah accent comes from, but there's no doubt we have a distinct ...