Traditional elocution lessons are making a comeback as jobseekers attempt to “soften” their regional accents and boost public speaking skills to get ahead in the workplace, according to research. The ...

The Essex accent has long attracted ridicule and disapproval. But primary school teachers say it also has a damaging effect on children’s spelling and grammar. So they have introduced elocution ...

Repeating ‘The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain’ helped transform Eliza Doolittle from a Cockney flower girl into a lady. These days, rising numbers of people are taking elocution lessons for a ...

NOW that Britain's public-school elite is in retreat, is the way it talks disappearing too? For years social levellers have been celebrating the decline of Received Pronunciation (RP), the clipped, ...

A primary school in Essex has become one of the first in the country to offer its pupils elocution lessons to help them lose their accents. 27 January 2012 • 9:45am Cherry Tree Primary School, in ...

Many speakers felt that their regional accent showed them in a poor light and led to discrimination in the workplace. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint How now brown cow! This jingle was made famous by ...

Though the royal family are not the most private people, they do still demand quite a bit of discretion from their employees. This goes doubly so for the people who dress the Queen Back in 2018, the ...

Some royal fans think Meghan's accent is "changing" THE eagerly-awaited royal documentary, Queen of the World, aired this week and fans across the country took to social media to voice their opinions ...

The Princess of Wales has taken elocution lessons and now sounds more posh than her husband, a new book claims. In Endgame, the royal commentator and journalist Omid Scobie details Kate’s journey from ...