Presenter Dommett, 38, was equally confused, telling the crowd: “Wow, Sarah Lancashire, everybody. That’s how much of an incredible actor she is; I didn’t know that was her real accent.

They then used parentheticals to indicate any non-English delivery of dialogue. The film’s stars, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, worked with a dialect coach to hone their accents.

In Hollywood, dialect coaches like McPherson are usually hired by actors or producers. The job can involve helping an actor speak a nonnative language; adopt a specific accent (In “Loving ...

November 27, 2018 This linguistics podcast breaks down Philly’s great, and changing, dialect The hosts thankfully get way past "jawn" and "wooder ice" ...

In the first stage of the research, researchers asked more than 350 people from the region to draw and describe different accents and dialects on an online map.

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

Dialect coach Lisa Anne Porter of the American Conservatory Theatre, author Janet B. Rodgers, and actor Robert Guttman weigh in on creating a new accent.

The accent, which is rooted in the working class Irish and Italian neighborhoods of south Philly, is not exclusive to this city. The Mid-Atlantic dialect -- as it is officially known -- can be ...

The next meeting of the Chorley Branch of the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society is at 7.30pm on Tuesday, June 15 at Chorley Library.