Country music – and country accents – are having a moment. The southern drawl is the accent mimicked by many, but perfected by few. Travel to any part of the south and you'll be greeted with more ...

Talk about pillow talk. A new survey ranking the sexiest American accents suggests the fastest way to someone’s heart might just be through their vocal cords — and the results may surprise you.

One popular theory dates back to the American Civil War. Before the Civil War, the South did not have nearly as much linguistic variation as it does today. Back then, the Southern accent was heavily ...

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 ...

On Sundays after church, my family would pile into our crank-window GMC truck and head to Kentucky Fried Chicken. “Can I get me some of them tater wedges?” my father would say into the speaker, while ...

Mountains in Utah, where the local accent presents unique ways of pronunciation. BYU Linguistics professors seek to understand this and the Utah accent more deeply. (Elsa Bray) When Utahns talk about ...

ATLANTA — It's a subject that comes up from time to time and can cause both deep discussion and great consternation around the South: The region's iconic accent is fixin' to disappear. Most recently, ...