The White Lotus’ Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey received mixed reviews for their characters’ southern accents following the season three premiere, but the onscreen couple explained their choices.

The 56- year-old Emmy-nominated actress was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but then her parents moved with her as a baby to Louisiana then Mississippi where she spent her youth and childhood. Posey is ...

A celebration at Boulud’s Daniel on the Upper East Side, showed that French fare is far from dead in New York City despite the closings of mainstays like La Grenouille, Le Cirque, Lutece and ...

Gui Steakhouse serves chops and Sichuan sides, Le Petit Village brings more French to the West Village and more news.

Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role and say the evolution of this singular ability ...

New York can be expensive place to retire, but it has many advantages, including lively and walkable cities, some top-flight ...

People judge accents based on stereotypes, not real speech. Many fail to recognize vowel shifts in everyday conversation.

The study, published earlier this month in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, suggests a strong cultural component to how ...

The study, published earlier this month in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, suggests a strong cultural component to how people identify and interpret regional accents.

Once a professional horseback rider, now a clinical dietitian, Tifa Alshaikh’s dream was to act. Now in their spare time they ...

In most cases, screenwriters aspire to write dialogue that sounds authentic. But it’s not easy – and often requires collaboration to get it right. Writers noted how they’ll adjust their dialogue based ...