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Who guards the hometown accent?

Once when I was in Thai Binh, someone asked me in Vietnamese about my "nương". I froze for a second. "Why's he asking me about barbecue (nướng)?" Seeing my confusion, he burst out laughing: "Ah, I ...
HBO's hit series Task wrapped up its season one run on Sunday night with its seventh episode, the widely-lauded "A Still Small Voice." The series was the ...
Task' and 'Mare of Easttown' dialect coach Susanne Sulby on working with the show's cast to nail the show's Delco and Philadelphia accents.
Grammar expert June Casagrande was recently surprised to learn she is a British citizen, thanks to her father. She took a quiz to find out how many British terms she knows and, with some help from ...
From Florence Pugh to Paul Mescal, global stars are redefining what authenticity sounds like — and audiences are keeping score.
I’m judged every day by my accent,” says Andy Farrell, in that distinctive Wigan inflection, neither Lancastrian nor Mancunian but a sound all its own. He concedes, too, that there was once a time ...
"Grey's Anatomy" star Kim Raver recently revealed she helps keep her co-star Kevin McKidd in check with his American accent while filming.
Mark Phillips is the CBS News senior foreign correspondent and has been based in the London Bureau since 1993. He has covered every major international story of the past 35 years, including conflicts ...