It was a week after Kim Hall’s surgery when her sister first noticed something different about her voice. “My mom and my sister came to visit me, and my sister said to my mom, ‘oh, she sounds very ...

Accentism – discriminating against someone because of their accent – has a long history in the UK, where the way someone speaks is often an easy way to tell their social class. People with ...

BBC presenter Amol Rajan has accused the broadcaster of being 'too posh'. Rajan is currently the BBC's media editor and set to replace Jeremy Paxman as the host of University Challenge next year.

Whether you speak Cockney slang, have a Scouse lilt or are full-on Geordie, there are no shortage of accents across the UK. Now a study suggests children as young as five start to link them to social ...

People with a British accent can seem charming, or just posh, but there are certain dialects that a survey found to be particularly unattractive ...

Professor, Linguistics, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University If you live in the UK or are familiar with its wide range of accents and dialects, you can probably tell the ...