For small islands, Great Britain and Ireland are home to a wide variety of accents. Some can be difficult to distinguish from ...

Next time you’re in an Irish bar or a Scottish pub, don’t try to impress the server by speaking with the local accent.

I think it’s a very Irish thing to do accents,” said Saoirse Ronan in a 2018 interview. She’s also somewhat of an accent ...

The same participants were then asked to mimic sentences in the other six accents chosen randomly. The team then selected recordings which they judged as the closest to the accents in question ...

Over the decades, Scottish musicians have made many classic, cult or under-appreciated albums that have stood the test of time. Today, we look ...

Study finds those from the north of England and the Irish far better at spotting interlopers imitating their dialect ...

Then, the same participants were recorded speaking the sentences in the other six accents. They then judged ... Next time you’re in an Irish bar or a Scottish pub, don’t try to impress the ...

The researchers pointed out that many speakers of the Essex accent only moved to the area over the past 25 years from London.