The British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC may be best known for being, well, a broadcasting company but it actually has left very important legacies in the tech industry today. The BBC Micro in the ...

A new survey has revealed what people think are the "friendliest" and "most relaxing" accents in the UK — and Geordie surely isn't high enough on the list. More than 1,500 people were asked their ...

Financial support for the Dialect and Heritage Project has come from National Lottery Heritage Fund (£530,500), the University of Leeds’ Footsteps Fund and alumni donations (£110,000), and partner ...

Shiri Lev-Ari is a lecturer in Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London. This story originally featured on The Conversation. If someone asked you to read this text aloud in a French accent or ...

As a Gladiator and former rugby union England international Jodie Ounsley might expect to face a range of questions on her sporting achievements or her TV alter ego. But in a recent social media post ...

Yakov Pichkar receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation (grant no. 62187). Nicole Creanza receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Different ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You look at England, for example, there are a vast variety of regional accents across a very, ...

A 2020 study of how a regional accent could impact wages found that having a different accent can reduce how much you’re paid by as much as 20%. The study, put together and researched by the ...