Accents are not inherently easy or difficult to comprehend. Rather, the lack of exposure people have to a variety of accents causes communication difficulties.

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at ...

Snopes readers reached out to us recently with a request: What are the origins of the mid-Atlantic accent, that snobby, faux-British accent that many American actors and newscasters used in the ...

Though Julia Schlaepfer's character Alex has a British accent in '1923,' the actor actually hails from Bellevue, Washington.

Mom says her British toddler has an American accent from watching Ms. Rachel videos American parents joked it's payback for kids' British accents from "Peppa Pig." ...

This new AI tool changes a speaker's accent to American English in real-time - hear for yourself Krisp wants to make accents easier to understand - while preserving the unique qualities of a voice.