A new study finds nearly 60% of Americans — including some New Yorkers — find the iconic NYC accent annoying. Here’s why some say it’s falling out of favor.

New York City is home to more than 700 languages, including distinct "New Yorker" accents. A new exhibit examines how changes in the city's population are contributing to their decline.

New York’s distinct accent — the one that brought us Joe Pesci’s defensive “Funny how?” in “Goodfellas” and Fran Drescher’s thick “Oh, Mr. Sheffield” from the sitcom “The ...

Second, even if you could deal with sentences like "I wuz on thoidy-thoid and thoid, and I aksed the doctah fo a cuppa watah, but he only had soder," the New York accent is about a lot more than ...

The classic New York City accent came in third in a ranking of sexiest accents nationwide. Texas came in first, which is tough to top, but the blood-boiler is coming up short behind Boston.

New York City is home to more than 700 languages — not to mention distinct New Yorker accents. All are in danger of being lost as the city's population continues to change.

Your New York Accent Is Going to Disappear By Claire Landsbaum "On some level, English appears to be getting homogenized." Photo: PASIEKA. Last year, the Oxford Dictionaries ...

The New York accent, with its dropped Rs, is “absolutely from British English,” says Kara Becker, a Ph.D. student at NYU who is writing her dissertation on New York City English.

You and Your Big Mouth: Tom Wolfe on how the Honks and Wonks reveal the phonetic truth about status. From the archives of New York magazine. It first appeared in two parts in the April 8 and 15, 1968.

Almost a a decade ago, NPR reported that the iconic New York accent was about to go extinct given the influx of out-of-towners moving into the city. The good news is that never ended up happening.

Colin Farrell Explains the Secret to Finding His New York Accent in ‘The Penguin’: Saying “Gefilte Fish” "For some reason 'Gefilte fish' became an anchor if the accent was beginning to go ...