The word 'accent' is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used to refer to the way someone pronounces their words (e.g. their accent). For example, you could use the sentence "Sue had a heavy French accent when she spoke English."
Even in a simple court dance, he's emphatic about the precise musical beat on which the foot has to be placed flat on the ground, the accent of a plié, the height at which a pointed toe should be lifted, the twist or curve of a torso.
"Everybody else in the band is madder than Jon," explains Gleeson between takes, in the character's middle-class English accent (if he slips into his native Irish between takes, his vowels start going, he explains), "but underneath the politeness, he has ambition.
What strikes me about Dai is his courtesy, desire to be fair and melodious Welsh accent, like a boat on an up-and-down sea.
It comes down to hair and accent, really: the first is now less floppy, the second is missing about 50% of the Ts.
"When I did Playboy I was 49," she says, her accent a mix of 1950s Pinewood Studios and LA power lunch.
She was well aware of how to exploit a sitter's bemusement when confronted by this short-of-stature figure speaking in clipped sentences with a posh accent.
Disorientated to find landmarks missing and her accent returning, she is reacquainted with her ex-husband and best friend.
It "felt weirdly more like a responsibility, a kind of civic or national responsibility", he says, the Lancashire accent surprisingly strong in a man who, now 56, has lived in the capital since he was 21.
In his soft, lilting Fermanagh accent, Elliott says he is quietly confident he can win back the seat unionism lost to Sinn Féin in 2001.
But even in Pirates of the Caribbean, when he was speaking with a Scottish accent and had his face obscured by octopus legs, Bill Nighy was still unmistakably Bill Nighy.
Also, strange accent from the singer – a kind of Strine Cockney.
