If there is a Tampa accent, it shares something with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous 1964 definition of obscenity. He couldn’t quite describe it, but said, “I know it when I see it.” In ...

As a cultural melting pot, it’s tough to pin down exactly what a “Miami accent” sounds like. (Aside from over-the-top Latin exaggerations you hear on TV.) Yet a survey done by the website Big 7 Travel ...

REGIONAL humor, like the regional accent, has suffered in the great American homogenization that occurred in the last half-century or so after World War II. In fact, genuine regional humor has to be ...

According to Big 7's list of the Top 50 Sexiest Accents in the USA, "Floridian" ranks 44, reportedly just slightly worse than a Pittsburgh accent. Sorry, Long ...

She was an American girl. He was a Florida boy. And when Gainesville's Tom Petty wrote about that "American Girl,'' alone on her balcony, "listening to the cars go by out on 441" (U.S. Route 441 runs ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - It’s no secret that people from Miami have a very unique way of speaking. But according to a recent survey, Miamians have one of the sexiest accents in the country. A recent survey by ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Did you know people from Florida have an accent? Well, according to a new survey, it’s a “baffling mix of Midwest and Northeast with a hint of Southern,” and hardly anyone finds ...