accent

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It makes travel easier, helps you learn still more languages, and gives you lessons in humility when, no matter how fluent you are, you realize your French will always bear an Anglo accent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

In a thick Quebecois accent, he said he set up rappers, athletes and other wealthy clients with rented cars, homes, jewelry and clothes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

"There's nothing I don't like about the job," he says in his rich Yorkshire accent.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

He married a woman he met in Venezuela, learned Spanish and developed an unusual accent that seemingly blended the multiple languages he spoke.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

That summer I stopped calling my mother “Mama” and started calling her “Mamá” with a French accent.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson