Phil Edwards on MSNOpinion

British accents for ignorant Americans

In this video, I explore the subplot of Colin Frissell in *Love Actually*, analyzing whether his British accent is genuinely ...

NotebookLM is flirting with long lectures and British accents

The Lecture format would sit alongside existing modes, such as Deep Dive, Brief, Critique, and Debate. NotebookLM is also teasing British English narration voices planned for 2026, with an early ...
El País in English

‘Dark, brutal, beautiful and mad’: Van der Graaf Generator, the darkest and most influential group in progressive rock

Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, Guy Evans, and David Jackson of Van der Graaf Generator pose in Paris in May 1974.Ian Dickson (Redferns) A Van de Graaff generator is a device capable of producing high ...
Frontiers

Feature attention and accent recognition: human listeners’ responses to five Northern English accents

1 School of English, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom 2 Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands This study investigates how ...
The Atlantic

Why Taylor Swift’s Accent Has Changed

The lore has by now been recounted many a time: In 2004, Scott and Andrea Swift moved from central Pennsylvania to Nashville so that their 14-year-old daughter, Taylor, could pursue a career in ...