Boston families with burger franchises and strong forearms: Annoying. The nice lady taking your order at Sail Loft: Annoying. Your dad: Annoying. Such is the inescapable truth, according to science.

The highly mimicked, oft-mocked Boston accent populates some of the industry’s most iconic films and TV shows with its non-rhotic (r-dropping) pronunciation, highly particular slang, and gravelly ...

What does a Boston accent sound like? Odds are, you have a pretty good idea. If you yourself are not an r-dropping Masshole, maybe beloved friends and relatives are. But even if no one you know in ...

In this 2014 file photo, an electronic sign on I-93 displays the phrase "Use Yah Blinkah" in Boston. The state posted the message "Changing Lanes? Use Yah Blinkah" on signs around the city. "Blinkah" ...

Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon had a strict no-Boston-accents rule while making Boston Strangler. "We did 'standard American.' That is all we were allowed," Knightley, 37, told PEOPLE at the film's ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Boston accent, often portrayed humorously in films and television, is more than just the signature “dropped R’s,” it’s a unique and valuable lens through which to explore ...

Stop the presses, because the new Keira Knightley movie on Hulu, Boston Strangler, is not a British period piece. It is, in fact, an American period piece. And Knightley is every bit at home in it as ...

Have you had a hard time using voice recognition? It turns out, it might be your New England accent. Guide2Fluency.com, a language learning platform, surveyed 3,000 Americans to find how AI ...

In trailers for the new true crime-based period piece Boston Strangler, it’s surreal to hear an American accent emerge from Keira Knightley’s extremely English visage. But it was almost a lot weirder.

Duffy’s Boston accent was partly inspired by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon movies, Reacher season 3 star Sonya Cassidy reveals. A new addition to the Reacher cast, Cassidy was previously best-known for ...