Some cultures are better than others at spotting impostors. The skill could allow them to pick out outsiders trying to ...

British accents in video games often default to RP or Cockney, but games like Dragon Quest VIII showcase a range of regional ...

He plays St Nick in a new TV animation, The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland. Butler said a Scottish accent "really lends itself to a dotey, bombastic, fun Santa" and he could immediately ...

In the clip, captioned "the grinch making fun of my Scottish accent", a staff member dressed as the Dr Suess character approaches Kirsty, pointing to her jumper off-screen he says: "That looks nothing ...

In the clip, captioned "the grinch making fun of my Scottish accent", a staff member dressed as the Dr Suess character approaches Kirsty, pointing to her jumper off-screen he says: "That looks ...

A sea mammal expert has developed a groundbreaking tool that can track dolphins by their regional accents. Dr Julie Oswald, of the University of St Andrews’ Scottish Oceans Institute, created the tool ...

He definitely didn't need a Scottish accent to produce the drivel that he was renowned for. "Where he might have struggled to understand Scottish accents most people in Scotland simply struggled ...

Some can be difficult to distinguish from one another, while others like the more rounded voweled Belfast accent sounds very different from a Dublin accent. When put to the test, people from ...

People from Scotland, Ireland and north-east England are better at being able to spot a fake accent than those from the South, a study has found. Dr Jonathan R Goodman, corresponding author of the ...