In northern England ‘dinner’ is the word often used for a midday meal and ‘tea’ for an evening meal, but in southern England ‘tea’ is often a light afternoon meal and ‘dinner’ is ...
By Gemma KingIn two of the biggest films released this summer, Gladiator II and Nosferatu, most actors seem to be speaking like they’re in a Shakespeare play – even though their characters are based ...
and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of ...
Accents refer to the way language is pronounced and form a wider part of our everyday dialects. The World Economic Forum estimates there are over 1.5 billion English speakers in the world ...
Dame Shirley Bassey grew up in Cardiff's Tiger Bay in the 1940s, but is her accent a thing of the past? From Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey to Gavin and Stacey and Goldie Lookin Chain, the range of ...