Ms Lucas] told me that ‘the team’ was having issues with my ‘very strong accent’, and therefore they didn’t want to invite me ...

The Rhode Island accent, as we know it, may be headed for extinction. While it’s still a reliable feature of the local landscape (“For the paahts depahtment, press 3”), a generational shift is ...

This 2024 video filmed for Rhode Island PBS captures the distinctive vowel sounds that show up in some local accents: "Talk" is pronounced "tawk," "ours" comes out as "ahhs," and "poor" sounds almost ...

The Senior Circuit Judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal [EAT] made the ruling following a case about a university worker who sued when she received criticism over her 'strong' Brazilian accent.

We want to hear it. For an upcoming story, The Providence Journal is putting together a compilation of notable local accents. If you'd like to participate, please call 401-277-7303 and leave a message ...

His name is Joseph Conrad and, as it happens, he had a very strong Polish accent in English! There is a longstanding myth that real bilinguals have no accent in their different languages.

He explains: “I had one guy recently from the central belt who had a strong Scottish accent and said to me, ‘I work with a lot of international clients and they just can’t follow my accent’.

Like Beth, Amy Kean, 42, from Thurrock, Essex, says she never realised she had a strong accent until she went to university. People would quote Catherine Tate's schoolgirl character Lauren Cooper ...

"Yes, my accent was strong. Yes, I was Brooklyn. Yes, I was poor, but did that mean I should be limited to only playing unintelligent, downtrodden, and humiliating stereotypes?" she wrote in her ...