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 ...

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 ...