Dr Amanda Cole, a lecturer at the University of Essex, says there is a "hierarchy of accents" in the UK, with accents from industrialised urban areas like Glasgow and Birmingham often seen as low ...

New research published in the journal Frontiers in Communication has taken this one step further after analysing certain UK accents and the behaviours often associated with them. The results ...

At the beginning of the clip, the male voice announces, 'Thank you for calling Manchester Service Centre' in what appears to be a localised Mancunian accent. However, as the message goes on ...

A recent study, conducted by the University of Cambridge and Nottingham Trent University, has revealed the UK public's perceptions of ten different accents from across the country. The study came ...

Before she started university, Beth Beddall had never really thought about her Black Country accent. But when she started attending seminars during her undergraduate course at Durham University in ...