🔴 🇬🇧 Southerners among worst at spotting fake English accents, study finds

Ian Sample

“Are southern English accents simply easier to fake than others? Goodman thinks not. Instead, he sees cultural evolution at work. A person’s accent is a signal of their social identity, and the history of tensions across the UK could have brought northerners, Scots and others closer together, making them more attuned to outsiders.”

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/20/southerners-among-worst-at-spotting-fake-english-accents-study-finds

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