A man has revealed his ranking of the 'sexiest accents' in the world and it has quickly gone viral on social media – however ...

In Britain, the biases people have about certain accents largely come down to class, sociolinguists say. Dr Cole, a lecturer at the University of Essex, says there is a "hierarchy of accents" in ...

I have a loud, often nasal Essex accent; think Russell Brand ... my presumed inferiority to provide opportunities for people with non-RP accents through leading one of the largest accounting ...

Northerners, Scottish and Irish people "excel" at detecting fake accents - to guard against outsiders, according to a new study. Cambridge University researchers found that people from Belfast ...