Gullah Accent Grub & Gab
I had the honor of meeting and speaking with Joseph Legree, Jr., a 2009 South Carolina Folk Heritage Award winner. Mr. Legree has been making casting nets for most of... Read more
AccentHelp Blog
Flat Accents and Round Accents
A follow-up question from a reader about the varied ways that “flat” is used to describe accents: “Are there any accents for which the key concept is rounded? Are there... Read more
Listening to Cockney Accents
It’s a bit of a challenge to base dialect work in a play fully on accurate, native-speakers’ accents. This is a challenge with more working-class dialects, especially. Oftentimes a full-out... Read more
Speak with a Canadian Accent
If you’re looking to learn a Canadian accent online, it’s important to figure out which Canadian accent you need to learn. Last summer I had the opportunity to travel across... Read more
French Canadian Accents & Schwartz’s Deli
French Canadian Accents We drove into Quebec to pursue recordings for the Canadian French accent. Much success! Happily, I met a number of Canucks who were more than willing to... Read more
Iowa Accent
I was born in a small town in northwest Iowa called Newell. And when I say small, I do mean small: There are only about 900 people there. The population... Read more
Talk Radio – Southern Accents
Last summer at about this time, I was on my long drive across the southeast US: Left Texas and passed through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and made my way into... Read more
Accents of English
I do some SEO work on the site – “Search Engine Optimization.” I never used to know what that meant, and now that I know, I feel like I still... Read more
