Can your accent make you sound aggressive? Exeter City football manager Gary Caldwell thinks so—he blamed his Scottish accent for his being sent off the pitch for the second time this season. After ...

Scottish accents in Hollywood aren’t just limited to Sean Connery’s masculine rolling r’s or the late James Doohan’s faux-brogue anymore. After Pixar set its latest computer-animated extravaganza ...

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research has found. People from Belfast ...

Caleb Landry Jones, the Texas-born actor, debuted a convincing Scottish accent at the Venice Film Festival press conference for Luc Besson’s “Dogman,” which is world premiering in competition at the ...

It’s nearly impossible at this point to ponder the character Shrek with anything but a Scottish accent, but as fans know this wasn’t what was originally recorded for the character. Myers has been open ...

Imagine a world in which Shrek, the titular ogre in the beloved DreamWorks film, boasted a Canadian accent. Okay, it’s not too far-fetched given Mike Myers hails from the Canadian province Ontario.