(WBIR) After a backlash from employees, Oak Ridge National Laboratory decided to drop a class that teaches how to minimize a southern accent. ORNL spokesperson David Keim said employees had requested ...
OAK RIDGE — It’s OK to talk Southern and work at a national lab — after all. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has canceled plans for a “Southern Accent Reduction” class because of objections from lab ...
PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- A new class that seeks to teach youngsters how to lose their Appalachian accents has set off an age-old phonetic debate: Should mountain natives drop the drawl or hold on tight to ...
Besides accents, it is a popular view, reinforced in media and pop culture, that certain words are used specifically by ...
It’s OK to talk Southern and work at a national lab — after all. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has canceled plans for a “Southern Accent Reduction” class because of objections from lab staff members, ...
Whether it is for auditions for GreenMan Theatre’s upcoming show “Charley’s Aunt” or some other purpose, GreenMan is offering a two-hour class on how to speak with a British accent on Tuesday, March 5 ...
Jose Barrientos thinks people may equate IQs with accents. That wasn’t, however, the reasoning behind his prank that fooled just about everyone in his public speaking class at Los Angeles City College ...
People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, and becoming ...
George Bernard Shaw noted it a century ago. “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him,” the Irish playwright observed in his ...