Dame Shirley Bassey grew up in Cardiff's Tiger Bay in the 1940s, but is her accent a thing of the past? From Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey to Gavin and Stacey and Goldie Lookin Chain, the range of ...

Wales is a country in the United Kingdom, located just West of England. Although they may sound similar, differences between the Welsh and English accents include Welsh’s more elongated vowel ...

He found that a stereotypical Welsh accent is set apart from others in the UK by how its pitch changes. He decided on the study after returning from abroad to the University of Glamorgan, south Wales.

So, we decided to do our own poll to find out the accent in Wales you found most appealing. Now we can reveal the result, and the winner by some distance is ... the Valleys, with 42% of the vote.

Mercedes Durham works at Cardiff University. She has received funding (2022-2026) from the Leverhulme Trust for a project titled Sociolinguistic Variation in South East Wales: Change and Contact ...

They include voices with North and South Wales accents. The voices are available in English and Welsh for boys and girls, with equivalent teenage versions. The mum of one young user said the ...

"Last time I checked, people in North Wales didn’t have such a broad Welsh accent," tweeted another. "South Wales accents in Llandudo," said another soap watcher. Article continues below.

From Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey to Gavin and Stacey and Goldie Lookin Chain, the range of Wales' accents is mind-boggling. From Cardiff to Anglesey and back, occasionally tongue-twisting tones ...

Now Cardiff University researchers have found some of south Wales' accents are becoming less prominent among the young and being replaced by a more uniform one. In Cardiff, ...

Video caption, Comedian Tom Rix's take on accents from across south Wales . It is believed the influence of people from surrounding areas living and working in the city is having an effect.