Northern, midlands, and cockney accents still get a lot of respect

Northern Irish

“I want to delve into academic research and am afraid even with a more ‘elegant’ regional accent I might be hindered.

Scotch

“Medicine seems too elitist. My working-class Scottish accent would be a problem in this novel.”

Derbyshire

“I am in medical school and very few doctors have regional accents.”

Liverpool

I don’t hear my dialect in videos of scientists speaking, and I don’t hear it from lecturers working in this field. My tone is so different that I feel my work wouldn’t be taken seriously.

Cockney

While it’s not something I worry about, I know others who have accents similar to mine do. It is a shame that people don’t speak the native dialect.

Black country

“For two week, I had a group (of students) imitate an extreme Black Country dialect whenever I spoke (about any topic).”

Newcastle

My accent is often mocked by people, but it doesn’t bother me. In interviews, I remember a boy from London asking a large group of people if they could “really understand [my]Accent, “which is pretty awful and was not a good impression of the university.”

Liverpool

I was told in the course of work that I wasn’t a typical civil servant.

Nigerian

This is a great issue to raise awareness for. We are perceived as problematic if we raise concerns with our managers and encounter tone bias.

Received pronunciation

It’s embarrassing to admit, but my perception of people I meet is affected by their accent almost every single week. I will assume that someone with an accent is more intelligent, educated, and reliable than someone with a lesser accent. It’s not right, I have made a series of quick judgments about the people I meet.

South Asia

Students are critiquing South Asian dialects. I also see students in London giving trouble to these teachers. Students have made fun of teachers with West African accents and bullied teachers with Eastern European accents. My colleagues often underestimate women with Essex accents of working-class status.

south london

“I felt like people would be able tell that I was poor by the way I spoke. So I changed the way that I speak to make it less common.”

West Midlands

“My accent became milder when I left home and the area I grew up in. It is not accepted as a socially acceptable accent. My accent has been removed.

Stoke on Trent

Caste and social deprivation are closely tied to my dialect and how it is presented in the national media. It’s an accent that makes people sound heavy and poor. These are huge barriers that are reinforced and glorified by the mainstream media, as well as their portrayal Stoke on Trent and the people who live there.

English downstream

My family and my community are the source of my accent. To ask me for a change is to ask me to deny that I have a heritage. I can show other dialects – and I’ve taught standard English pronunciation in ESOL (English For Speakers of Other Languages) classes. But I’m not going swap the code to the outdated concept of elitism. It is my least favorite aspect of living in England.