From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Many speakers felt that their regional accent showed them in a poor light and led to discrimination in the workplace. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint How now brown cow! This jingle was made famous by ...

Just in time to help me understand the 2004 political campaign and church scene, my son Micah presented me with Appleton’s School Readers Fifth Reader. Back in 1878-79, when it was published, ...

Speaking this week at what sounds like a bastion of received pronunciation – the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, Surrey – Joan Bakewell confided that "someone at the BBC" had said her voice is ...

Effective oral communication entails accurate structuring of the language and grammar; semantics, syntax and pronunciation. That is not to say that the speaker should arrange the word flow in a ...

Traditional elocution lessons are making a comeback as jobseekers attempt to “soften” their regional accents and boost public speaking skills to get ahead in the workplace, according to research. The ...

Excerpts from Keats, Tennyson, and Woolf lingered in the air of Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium last Tuesday, as a dozen students took part in the English Department’s annual Boylston Prize ...