Cooper Lund was born and raised in Minnesota, and has now lived in Brooklyn for a decade. He’s only been to Philadelphia twice in his life. Nevertheless, he can quickly rattle off a list of the city’s ...

In 2021, Mare of Easttown, became a sensation not just for the story and the twists. It was also where Kate Winslet's performance was anchored by her Philly accent (more specifically, her Delco accent ...

Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s ...

Keeley tells PEOPLE he was only able to understand "the cadence and the rhythm" of the specific "Delco" dialect after arriving in Philadelphia Tabitha Parent is a writer at PEOPLE covering ...

A University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor says the Southern-inflected sound of the Philadelphia dialect is moving toward a more Northern accent. Some of Philly’s trademark twangy, elongated ...