She also teaches accents to actors, most recently at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis when they did “Sherwood: the ...

While on 'Live with Kelly and Mark,' Stanley Tucci spoke with hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos about life in the U.K.

Ever since the first Star Wars film, Imperial officers have had English accents, which reflected both George Lucas' ...

British actors crossing the pond to be cast in big-time American movies and television shows. As a child actor, Nicholas Hoult tended to play characters who were British like him.

Over time, the changes went beyond accent to include different words and grammatical structures, adding up to a new dialect. Dialects have two main causes. The first is isolation; early colonists ...

Accents vary hugely, and how they are received varies hugely. “Years and years ago, the BBC had an unofficial league table of the most liked and the most hated accents. “The view was that some ...

The BBC had an “unofficial league table” of British accents, in which Birmingham was ranked the worst, one of the broadcaster’s most esteemed war correspondents has said. In remarks at a ...