There's no strict recipe for the Rhode Island accent. But these are the ingredients that you're likely to find in the mix.

A recent study, that found people from the Big Apple have the most confident sounding of all American accents, while Southerns had the most charming.

The so-called Cranston accent, which often shows up in people who have Italian ancestry or grew up in a heavily Italian-American area (including Johnston, North Providence and parts of Providence).

The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas of the South as people migrate to the region from other parts of the U.S. and around the world. A series of research papers ...

ATLANTA — Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends ...