If we traveled in time to America at its founding, we would be as thrown by how people sounded as by the absence of ...

The latest trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ sparked online backlash, with fans shocked to hear Matt Damon’s American accent.

Fantasy books and films are a massive hit with both readers and spectators. Although the tales occur in a fictional realm, the characters always speak with British accents instead of American accents.

While English is the most commonly used language in the United States, anyone who’s spent time in different parts of the country knows that not all Americans sound the same. Accents vary across ...

Ever since I moved to the U.S., many people have told me that I have an accent. A girl in my fifth-grade math class said “You sound weird.” My AP English teacher asked me “You are not from here, right ...