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People who’ve grown up and spent most of their life in Tyneside are being offered £40 for less than an hour’s work — so long as they’ve got a proper Geordie accent. While it won’t exactly amount to a ...
In fifty years, the distinctive Geordie accent might be all but dead. That’s according to a study from University of York professor Dr. Dominic Watt and speech coach Dr. Brendan Gunn. The paper says ...
People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, and becoming ...