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You better knock off that awful attempt at a Scottish brogue, mate: A team of researchers has found that people in the northern United Kingdom and Ireland are especially good at telling when you’re ...

Hidden bias based on people's accents has been around since the dawn of time. New research published in the journal Frontiers in Communication has taken this one step further after analysing certain ...

Here in Leeds, we take pride in the rich diversity of our accents - from the unique Barnsley twang to the gentler tones of North Yorkshire. Few of us would even contemplate how a chosen name for our ...

Northern English accents risk dying out within half a century as southeastern pronunciations increasingly dominate the country’s speech, scientists have predicted. Researchers from the universities of ...