Here we analyse vowel sounds from the annual ... Our analysis reveals that the Queen's pronunciation of some vowels has been influenced by the standard southern-British accent of the 1980s ...

The vowelphabet *According to language company Babbel, Australian and Standard British have 19 vowel sounds, and Scottish has 20. There are 26 letters in the English language, and roughly 44 ...

The British Library is asking the public to help it track how pronunciation is shifting in the UK ahead of an exhibition on evolving English.

Johnny Robinson, a socio-linguist at the British Library, told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: "Many of us have a view that there's a right way or a wrong way and that's reinforced by ...

British pop singers have been imitating American pronunciations since Cliff Richard, ... This makes vowel sounds and rhoticity all the more important in conveying accent in song.

For anyone looking to sound more Downton Abbey than Gossip Girl (and who rues the day when Americans lost their British accents), Patricia Fletcher has a few pointers for you. Fletcher, a dialect ...