When accents die, it’s more like a slow fade and an instant death. What happens is just fewer and fewer people use them. In ...

The business-like accent of Dallas to the Houston whisper, Fred Armisen is obsessed with Texas accents.

For language geeks like me, accent reduction is a term used to describe losing a foreign or regional accent to adopt a more popular one (e.g., American). It’s an important part of a person’s identity, ...

Lower taxes, gentler winters, and more affordable housing are drawing newcomers, often Midwesterners, to the South, changing ...

Believe it or not, the guy playing the very American Ned Sampson on The Paper is not American at all. Actor Domhnall Gleeson portrays the Peacock series' new Editor-in-Chief, a Midwestern guy who just ...