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 ...

Residents of Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and northeast England are better at detecting fake regional accents than Londoners and people from other points south, a study published in the journal ...

A new survey has revealed what people think are the "friendliest" and "most relaxing" accents in the UK — and Geordie surely isn't high enough on the list. More than 1,500 people were asked ...

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 ...

People from Scotland, Ireland and north-east England are better at being able to spot a fake accent than those from the South, a study has found. Cambridge University researchers found those from ...

A new survey has revealed what people think are the "friendliest" and "most relaxing" accents in the UK — and "Welsh" comes out top in both. Viewers of the new series of The Traitors on the BBC ...

Beth Beddall began to feel self-conscious about her accent when she started university [Beth Beddall] ...