North Carolina has an extensive audio archive of local accents and dialects that contains thousands of recordings. Rhode Island, sadly, has nothing of the kind. So here's a sampling of accents from ...

They’re smooth talkers. These accents are the most attractive in America — and shockingly, Long Island and Staten Island made the Top 10. The Cajun accent was crowned the most attractive in the nation ...

People in eastern New England have been dropping their R's for centuries, but that's starting to change – even as subtle regional differences remain. Rhode Island accents became a source of stigma ...

When people talk about the "New York accent," they really ought to be more specific. There's the near-midwestern voice of Western New York, the New England-tinged sound of the Capital Region, and the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Turns out, the way Staten Islanders tawk is actually music to people’s ears. According to a recent survey from VegasSlotsOnline, the borough’s unmistakable sound has been named ...

Long Islanders are no strangers to strong opinions about the way they tawk — but being told they have one of the most attractive accents in the country? That’s a new one. A study published this month ...

When my husband, Billy, and I moved from Nassau County to an age-55-plus development in Sussex County, Delaware, we chose the area for attributes that we loved about Long Island: beautiful beaches, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Artificial intelligence ...

Who on the Islanders can do the best Long Island accent? If you take a look at the New York Islanders roster, you will see that many of the players have been on Long Island for quite some time. The ...

Archival footage from the 1986 Constitutional Convention captures a wide range of Rhode Island accents at a time when they were common among all generations. Many of Rhode Island's present-day ...