India Today on MSN

Aimee Lou Wood explains keeping her Manchester accent in 'The White Lotus'

Unlike many characters in The White Lotus Season 3, Chelsea is not American. The character, played by Aimee Lou Wood, is from ...
Hosted on MSN

This is the UK's most attractive accent — but some think it's 'ugly'

While a Welsh accent helped Charlotte from The Traitors gain trust, if you want people to fancy you, you’ll need to take a different tack. According to Hearing Care Partnership’s annual research, the ...
The Conversation

Amanda Seyfried nails bits of the 1700s Manchester accent in The Testament of Ann Lee – a linguist explains how we know

Imagine time-travelling to Manchester, England in the late 1700s. What do you think people would sound like? That’s the challenge facing Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee: portraying a ...

Are you 'happee' or are you 'happeh?' Study links accents to social classes

Our accents give away more about social class than we think, according to new research led by Lancaster University. The new sociolinguistic study focusing on Mancunian accents, published in the ...
Contactmusic.com

Elvis Costello takes swipe at Oasis and jokes he can't decode a Manchester accent

Elvis Costello has shared some candid thoughts on Oasis, The La’s and the North West’s most distinctive accents. Reflecting on the influence of Lee Mavers and The La’s, Costello said he believes the ...