I was born and raised in Berks County. I never realized until I left the area that I had an accent –namely, a Pennsylvania Dutch one. After I graduated from high school, I moved to Georgia with my ...

John Donmoyer still doesn’t know what made him start talking that day with the thick-as-bacon-dressing Pennsylvania Dutch accent he slips in and out of at will. “Every now and then I revert into this, ...

Struggling to understand your heavily accented co-worker? Can’t follow what the customer support person at the other end of the phone is saying? Technology rushes to the rescue. It turns out that ...