Accentism – discriminating against someone because of their accent – has a long history in the UK, where the way someone speaks is often an easy way to tell their social class. People with ...

A theater class in rural eastern Kentucky has seen more publicity than organizers could ever have imagined. The reason: They were teaching young Appalachian performers to get rid of native accents.

(WBIR) After a backlash from employees, Oak Ridge National Laboratory decided to drop a class that teaches how to minimize a southern accent. ORNL spokesperson David Keim said employees had requested ...

OAK RIDGE — It’s OK to talk Southern and work at a national lab — after all. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has canceled plans for a “Southern Accent Reduction” class because of objections from lab ...

People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, and becoming ...

George Bernard Shaw noted it a century ago. “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him,” the Irish playwright observed in his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The problem is also widespread among university students (Getty Images/iStockphoto) A quarter of UK employees have had their ...

Whether you speak Cockney slang, have a Scouse lilt or are full-on Geordie, there are no shortage of accents across the UK. Now a study suggests children as young as five start to link them to social ...

GREAT FALLS, Va. -- Armed with a tape recorder and endless patience, Sharon Heffley has spent the past 17 years unraveling the knot of mispronunciations and garbled syllables common to many ...

Jose Barrientos thinks people may equate IQs with accents. That wasn’t, however, the reasoning behind his prank that fooled just about everyone in his public speaking class at Los Angeles City College ...