Alyssa Healy’s stated ambition on the eve of this Women’s Ashes was to “throw the first punch”. Mission very much accomplished. England limped away from North Sydney on Sunday evening with ...

“Where was he born, Scotland?” I inquired. “Edmund Stoiber is German. That is the Bavarian accent and dialect,” he responded after a peal of long laughter. Well, this is not how I had wished to ...

Here, Dr Baratta argues that society’s problem with accents could have more to do with perception than pronunciation. The way we talk can reveal a lot about us and our origins – in terms of region, ...