Surprise: some of our most well-known "American" characters are actually played by Irish actors (or British actors, or ...

Another key difference between the American and British accents is the flat “a” vs. the broad “a” pronunciation (such as in words like “dance” and “bath”).

In a standard American English accent, "cot" and "caught" would be pronounced the same, but to someone with a Michigan or Inland North accent, the two spoken words sound completely different.

We often poke fun at poorly attempted accents. Brad Pitt in The Devil’s Own, for example, but some foreign actors sound as authentically American as apple pie — if apple pie could act. These ...

American parents joked it's payback for kids' British accents from "Peppa Pig." A mom in the United Kingdom says her young daughter is speaking like an American thanks to a hugely popular YouTube ...

Is there such a thing as an Asian American accent? Nobody can quite nail it down — or agree whether it exists — but apparently you know it when you hear it.

Tom Holland reflected on how his English accent has changed over the years as he frequently uses an American accent for his acting work during an Oct. 23 appearance on 'Live with Kelly and Mark.' ...

The two main types of Southern American accent are the inland, spoken by Matthew McConnaughey and Woody Harrelson, and the coastal, as heard from Reese Witherspoon and Walton Goggins.