There's no strict recipe for the Rhode Island accent: An old-timer from Charlestown won't necessarily sound the same as someone from Cumberland or Cranston. But there are certain ingredients that ...

North Carolina has an extensive audio archive of local accents and dialects that contains thousands of recordings. Rhode Island, sadly, has nothing of the kind. So here's a sampling of accents from ...

Are you proud of your Rhode Island accent? The Rhode Island Report podcast is looking for the state’s most distinct voices for next week’s podcast episode that comes out on Thursday morning. If you or ...

PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Report has produced about 225 podcast episodes now, and by far the most popular has been “How to talk like a Rhode Islander.” So as we take a few weeks off this summer, ...

People in eastern New England have been dropping their R's for centuries, but that's starting to change – even as subtle regional differences remain. Rhode Island accents became a source of stigma ...

Archival footage from the 1986 Constitutional Convention captures a wide range of Rhode Island accents at a time when they were common among all generations. Many of Rhode Island's present-day ...