Some cultures are better than others at spotting impostors. The skill could allow them to pick out outsiders trying to ...

Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend tried his damndest to nail the South Dublin accent, but just couldn’t — with Twitter users labelling his effort ‘painful,’ and another calling it ‘a hate ...

This isn’t the first time the Brits have claimed Ireland’s most sexy exports as their own, having taken credit for Paul ...

Some can be difficult to distinguish from one another, while others like the more rounded voweled Belfast accent sounds very different from a Dublin accent. When put to the test, people from ...

The researchers say that accent-detecting skills could be a defence mechanism which evolved to help sniff out outsiders. This could explain why places like Belfast and Dublin which have frequently ...

But the researchers said the results could be partially informed by how accents from Belfast, Glasgow, Dublin and north-east England have culturally evolved over the past several centuries.

You better knock off that awful attempt at a Scottish brogue, mate: A team of researchers has found that people in the northern United Kingdom and Ireland are especially good at telling when you ...

If that made residents of Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin better at detecting fake accents, the lack of conformity could explain why people from Essex, London, and Bristol are comparatively worse at it.

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 from the University of ...