Britney Spears is giving fans a taste of her dialect skills. The "Matches" songstress tried on a posh British accent in an Instagram video on Wednesday. She took to the platform to tell her fans that ...

What is Gillian Anderson’s accent in real life? The answer is … it depends. Fans of Netflix’s “The Crown” will recall Anderson’s marvelously posh British accent when she played Prime Minister Margaret ...

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

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Tim Curry rose to fame as the cheeky cross-dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 musical comedy The Rocky ...

At this year’s Hay Festival, Jane Tranter – former executive vice-president of programming and production at the BBC and current producer of Austen adaptation The Other Bennet Sister – said actors ...

Footage of an Indian tourist switching smoothly from Hindi curse words to a posh British accent has amused many on social ...