She also teaches accents to actors, most recently at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis when they did “Sherwood: the ...

Simon Roper, a polyglot who enjoys exploring the history of the English language, explained how the standard British English accent was developed in the 1700s by the upper class in order to ...

Over time, the changes went beyond accent to include different words and grammatical structures ... mariners’ Indian English pidgin and other settlers, who spoke Dutch, Swedish, French and ...