"Accent prejudice maps onto societal prejudice," she says. Sandwell, where Beth is from, was ranked the ninth most income-deprived of the 316 local authorities in England in the latest available ...

Dr 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 status.

The "friendliest" and "most relaxing" accents in the UK have been named — and there's a clear winner (and loser). A new survey has revealed what people think are the "friendliest" and "most ...

Try words for babies or friends, happy, sad, tired, lucky. Just like accents, people speak differently across the UK, and so a dialect is neither right nor wrong. Narrator (referencing the burp ...

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 ...