Workers at a federal laboratory in Tennessee can talk with Southern accents to their heart’s content after managers scrapped an idea to help them “fix” their natural dialects.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — It’s OK to talk in a Southern accent and work at a national lab after all. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Department of Energy's largest laboratory, has canceled plans ...

Is it the Southern twang or frequency of the word "y'all" that truly makes a Nashville accent? As it turns out, it may be ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has decided to drop a class that teaches how to minimize a southern accent.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which employs more than 4,400, was fixin’ to offer classes on losing a Southern accent until complaints put that horse back in the barn, the ...

The classic Southern accent is on the decline, according to a study. The shift toward a mainstream American accent has become more pronounced with Generation X.

Culture Iconic southern accent is slowly disappearing with time, linguists say Researchers at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology said Generation X is largely behind ...

Americans consider the Southern accent to be the friendliest in the country, according to a new study. More than one in three people find the Southern twang — found in Alabama, Louisiana ...

He had dialect training for an Alabama accent before filming, and according to all opinions I found on the subject, still flubbed it horribly.

The Southern accent could be fading away--or at least changing. That's what linguists are learning as they track changes to accents in North Carolina.

The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas of the South as people migrate to the region from other parts of the U.S. and around the world.

The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas of the South as people migrate to the region from other parts of the U.S. and around the world.