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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

"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.

When she replied telling him she went to a state school, he said: "You must be intimidated by us and how we speak ... says there is a "hierarchy of accents" in the UK, with accents from ...

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 ...

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.” ...