In this week’s episode, we took on the mystery of the “Boston movie”—a cinematic subgenre whose appeal is closely tied to the distinctive Boston accent. We invited Boston University linguist Dr.

The actress sounds very different in real life. Speaking to Men’s Journal, Cassidy, who is British by birth, explained how she found Susan Duffy’s voice. Literally. “I listened to a lot of Boston ...

Rhode Islanders are known for dropping R's, but also have distinctive ways of pronouncing certain vowels. Some of Rhode Islanders' speech patterns have more in common with those in New York than ...