Advice Ask Amy: What does a Los Angeles accent sound like, anyway? Published: Feb. 24, 2024, 2:00 p.m.

Is it the Southern twang or frequency of the word "y'all" that truly makes a Nashville accent? As it turns out, it may be ...

Twitter: @Uncle_KyKy Jason Isaacs in The White Lotus entering the British Person Doing A Bad American Accent Hall Of Fame — Chris DeVille (@chrisdeville) February 24, 2025 Twitter: @chrisdeville ...

What we’re tackling is the reason why the American accent is so different from the British accent, even for words we spell the same and give the same meaning to (think garage, vitamin and basil).

As some pointed out, this pronunciation mix-up stems from what's called the cot–caught merger, a linguistic sound change in which North American English speakers began to pronounce words like ...