G’day, mate! Do you fancy having a ripper Straya accent, like Kate Winslet in “The Dressmaker” or Dev Patel in “Lion”? Taking on a role that requires an Australian-English accent can be a challenge ...

It is an entertaining spectacle. But while it may be challenging to play a tongue, it's even more difficult to speak with one, which is the point Griffiths is trying to make in The Sounds of Aus, an ...

We are social creatures with our own special quirks and habits. Explainers unpack the rules we live by (and sometimes break).See all 25 stories. We all know an Australian accent when we hear one: the ...

IN a remote fishing town in Scotland, the last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect has passed away, taking with him a little fragment of the English linguistic mosaic. Academics said Bobby Hogg, ...