SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – There’s a Southern accent, a Boston accent and a Jersey accent, but is there a California accent? That may be the wrong question to ask, says one linguist. “Everyone has an ...
What makes the SoCal accent unique? Take Two embarked on a journey to find out, and the results took us to an unexpected conclusion. As part of our new initiative "SoCal. So Curious," we opened up the ...
What does a Californian sound like? We all know the cliche-- a mix of surfer dude, Valley girl and carefree spirit -- encapsulated to perfection by Saturday Night Live. Professor Penelope Eckert, a ...
Dialect coaches have been working overtime this year thanks to the overwhelming presence of actors from Across the Pond or Down Under in lead roles for films set in the American South. Tim Burton’s ...
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How the cast of the Tony-nominated "The Hills of California" worked to get the accents right
The Tony-nominated "The Hills of California" transports the audience to Blackpool, England, a seaside community with a distinct accent. Actor Allison Jean White said she transformed her speech, word ...
The first and only time I was on national television, I was giving a food tour to a travel TV show host around the San Gabriel Valley, proudly extolling the virtues of Cantonese roast duck, ...
A bill in the California Assembly, known as CA Assembly Bill 77, seeks to allow residents of California to use diacritical marks — like accents— and the Spanish-language letter "ñ" on ...
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