Angie Holland is proud of her thick drawl but says it’s jarring to hear her voice blare over the intercom at the store where she works in Albany, Ga. “I’m like, OK, I sound like a country hick,” the ...

Accent isn’t just sound, it’s culture and connection. You’ve heard it on TV or at the stadium: a coach, slightly southern-accented, saying something that just sounds right. That moment, whether real ...

Well, bless their hearts — Gen Z is killing the Southern drawl, y’all. That’s according to a new study published in Language Variation and Change, which claims the classic Southern American accent has ...

I have something in common with Stephen Colbert. We both, at a young age, thinking ahead to trying to make it big on TV, decided that we weren’t going to have a Southern accent. Colbert, a D.C. native ...

If you thought Reese Witherspoon’s Tennessee accent was spot-on as June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line,” you were right – she grew up in Nashville. Actors often work hard to lose Southern accents – ...

Mac M. Mertens ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Weld Hall. I always thought that I sounded pretty neutral, geographically-undefined. It was something I was proud of. Of course, I shouted ...

Let’s dig deep and find out why certain names simply fall out of fashion. When you hear names like Gladys or Herbert or Doris, you probably automatically think of old people, but why is that?

What is the least annoying U.S. accent? The study revealed that the Alaskan accent is the least irritating. For more information, visit answeringservicecare.com. Vanessa Countryman is the Trending ...