Dialect coach Catherine Charlton helped actors on HBO's John Adams miniseries nail down Colonial American accents.

In Boston, there are reports of people pronouncing the letter “r.” Down in Tennessee, people are noticing a lack of a Southern drawl. And Texans have long worried about losing their distinctive twang.

We had dinner with this girl last weekend who has been living in England for the past 9 months. During the course of conversation, she kept "accidentally" slipping into a British dialect. I happen to ...

These subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—patterns of accent bias are engendered and then reinforced in our society in a ...

It has always struck me as absurd that actors in English-language films set in other times or countries speak in accents. After all, the ancient Romans, Greeks, Israelites, Gaels or whatever other ...