This survey examines the effect of five regional accents on perceptions of professional aptitude among members of the UK public.

This page gives preliminary results of an on-line survey of accents of English in Britain and Ireland. This survey, launched in March 2009, is designed ...

The Accent Bias in Britain project examines current attitudes to accents in Britain, and investigates whether unconscious accent bias plays a role in how job ...

11 июл. 2024 г. · Brits' Top 10 Local Accents (by percent of votes): · Scottish – 15% · Geordie – 12% · Welsh – 12% · Northern Irish – 10% · West Country – 8% ...

3 нояб. 2022 г. · Almost half of UK workers have had their accents mocked, criticised or singled out in a social setting, a survey suggests.

4 апр. 2024 г. · After surveying the regions, 56.74% of citizens in the South East said that there are no UK accents or dialects they would like to have.

During the 1950s and 60s, fieldworkers from the Survey of English Dialects travelled across England, visiting more than 300 different towns and villages.

3 нояб. 2022 г. · Among adults in the survey, 25% said their accents had been mocked or criticised at work, while 47% of university students and 46% of adults ...

17 нояб. 2022 г. · A study on accent bias in Britain, titled “Speaking up”, has ... “One in four have accents mocked at work – survey”, BBC News, November 3, 2022.

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