My first impression of Philadelphia was the former Filbert Street Greyhound bus station. As an 18-year-old Ecuadorian girl, I was never allowed to venture in my native country, but was miraculously ...

The Rhode Island accent was once a source of stigma. ... Roughly 100 people called in. Examples of some great accents are embedded throughout this story. ... He grew up outside Philadelphia, ...

The last example of Siri's incompetency is relevant to anyone who has a slight twang in their accent. As a Scot, I can have a thick accent at times, but to be perfectly honest it's usually very ...

This accent hierarchy has existed since the earliest surveys 50 years ago.” In Hollywood, accent-switching happens almost daily. For example, Tom Holland had to drop his English accent to sound like a ...

Harris mocked for unveiling ‘new accent’ at Philadelphia event: ‘Everything about this woman is fake’ By . Josh Christenson. Published Oct. 28, 2024. Updated Oct. 28, 2024, 9:49 a.m. ET.

Vice President Kamala Harris was dragged on X by critics who say she debuted a "new accent" they compared to a "pastor" while speaking to congregants of a church in Philadelphia.

When I first wrote about Philly dialect 25 years ago, this was a new change — or at least one that nobody recognized. Now, if you go to a speech clinic to get rid of your Philadelphia accent (and some ...

"Wooder," for example, is a common pronunciation in South Jersey and Philadelphia suburbs. Its bold, high-tempo solo accent cannot be ignored. It’s catchy, distinctive, and let’s face it ...

Some letters are dropped — imagine becomes 'magine, for example — and others are added, like the T in across. Boberg said much of the P.E.I. dialect can be traced to its Scottish roots.

A great example of the rare southern Jersey accent in film is Bruce Willis in “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” Listen to him say “oo-kay, oo-kay” at the beginning of the trailer.

Some say you can detect a slight “that’s-naught-a-knoife” inflection here and there, but I’d say the Aussie actress delivers the most finely tuned reproduction of a Philadelphia accent in movie ...

For Michael P. Toner, the vocal coach in the City Theater Company production of “Dancing at Lughnasa,” two of the most important things he offered coaching on were “dancing” and “lughnasa.” “Dancing” ...