An exploration of the ways our tongues—and our pride—twist around foreign words, and what that says about how we want to be seen. It wasn’t so much that my friend, a Brit who has lived in Los Angeles ...

A Singapore man was denied a $10,000 prize due to his pronunciation, despite correctly identifying singer Tony Hadley. Pronunciations like "Hadley" and "Hedlye" vary globally, with notable ...

In this paper, we focus on analyzing American English corner vowels produced by Mandarin, Hindi and American accented speakers by using Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), Linear Predictive ...

There's no strict recipe for the Rhode Island accent. But these are the ingredients that you're likely to find in the mix.

Archival footage from the 1986 Constitutional Convention captures a wide range of Rhode Island accents at a time when they ...

Sales soared as consumers in the former communist state chugged enthusiastically on the sugary icon of American capitalism. Peddling Americana abroad, however, is getting trickier. Last month ...

An American basketball player for the Indonesian league was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle illegal drugs to the country, police said Thursday. The Southeast Asian country has ...

Months before, I had typed out a few fevered paragraphs to my editor about wanting to do a classic all-American road trip, following the outline of Route 66, once known as the Main Street of ...

From trade to tech and peace efforts, they see deeper cooperation during Abu Dhabi visit Dubai/Abu Dhabi: American expats in the UAE have welcomed US President Donald Trump’s visit to the ...

In addition to being a natural-born American citizen, Leo is also a naturalized citizen of Peru, having ministered there for decades. His election as pope raises several interesting questions ...

That's got to hurt. Jennifer Lopez, 55, sustained an injury to her face during rehearsals for the upcoming American Music Awards, she revealed May 13. The "Jenny from the Block" singer ...