"Urban accents across the UK are associated ... Here are some of the words and phrases the BBC encountered this year that helped to unravel the changes taking place in world around us.

New research published in the journal Frontiers in Communication has taken this one step further after analysing certain UK accents and the behaviours often associated with them. The results ...

Try words for babies or friends, happy, sad, tired, lucky. Just like accents, people speak differently across the UK, and so a dialect is neither right nor wrong. Narrator (referencing the burp ...

The Cockney accent is ... take on the word “bake” sounds, to many British ears, more like the word “bike”, which has the potential to cause some confusion.' The UK regional terms at ...

Rather, it will usually sound like the vowel sound in a word like "north." "I think the biggest mistake is going too broad. A ...

The fact that it ranks above any regional UK accents is also surprising, as we could easily assume that accents that are more familiar to us may have a more soothing effect." ...

The fact that it ranks above any regional UK accents is also surprising, as we could easily assume that accents that are more familiar to us may have a more soothing effect.” ...