You better knock off that awful attempt at a Scottish brogue, mate: A team of researchers has found that people in the northern United Kingdom and Ireland are especially good at telling when you’re ...

It’s been an odd week for Northern Irish accents. First Coronation Street made a joke about a Belfast voice not being “smooth”. Then a Mail on Sunday reviewer admitted she resorted to using subtitles ...

The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster ...