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.

Over the past two decades, Taylor Swift has categorized her music, relationships and style in eras. But researchers have found another thing that Swift seems to change often — and that is the way she ...

To work on an accent with another person, a degree of trust is required. They have to make themselves very vulnerable to you. Many actors coming to that process are filled with fear. Now, I have ...

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 ...

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 ...