The occasionally baffling dialect spoken by Outer Banks natives along the North Carolina coast has made a list of “The Top 50 Sexiest Accents” in the country. Travel site Big 7 Travel says it compiled ...

A page from an English dictionary listinf=g a definition of a word next to its phonetic transcription in standard American English. (Photo by Rob Hobson on Unsplash) Born in southwestern Ohio, my ...

The project includes hundreds of audio samples, including recordings from 54 Kentucky counties. An accent isn't just the way you pronounce words, but a representation of the community you're apart of.

The Old Dominion is home to a grab-bag of accents, as if stating that makes the state different than other ones in the union. Most people in the United States have an accent, even if they don’t hear ...

A bill moved a step forward in the Tennessee legislature that would recognize the history and culture of Appalachian people in the state. Republican State Sen. Steve Southerland of Morristown ...

I never thought I would move to the South and still have people comment on my accent daily. Realizing it is a pure Appalachian Kentucky accent and very “thick,” as they say, I have never even begun to ...

I’m putting my Appalachian accent to the test with a fun accent challenge featuring some tricky English words! I’m from eastern Kentucky, and I’m curious how people from different places pronounce ...

The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock is like an old Appalachian ballad — like one of the mountain songs captured in the 1930s by Alan Lomax and played by Dylan, full of lust, damnation, magic, and death. It ...

A bill moved a step forward in the Tennessee legislature that would recognize the history and culture of Appalachian people in the state. Republican State Sen. Steve Southerland of Morristown ...