Those with native accents are often unaware of the pervasive bias that those with perceived foreign accents experience. A new study from Sutton Trust indicates that accent discrimination is still a ...

The lore has by now been recounted many a time: In 2004, Scott and Andrea Swift moved from central Pennsylvania to Nashville ...

Accents not only help us to distinguish where someone may originate from, but also influence how we perceive their character and their capabilities. For instance, research has shown that we tend to ...

Oregon native Karen Butler speaks with a British accent since dental surgery. May 5, 2011— -- Karen Butler is from Oregon, not England. When asked where she got her accent, she says from her ...

ASU is known for its diverse academic community, but for professors who speak English with a non-native accent, the classroom can sometimes feel like a challenging place. While they bring valuable ...

In a fraught political and cultural climate, immigration, nativism, and belonging remain divisive points in American society and culture. Those concerns are particularly acute for both U.S.-born ...

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Accentism—discriminating against someone because of their accent—has a long history in the U.K., where the way someone speaks is often an easy way to tell their social class. People with working-class ...

In the early days of Hollywood, actors with accents had limitations placed on their careers. Bela Lugosi became the king of horror when he played Dracula in 1931, but his dreams of being a leading man ...

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.