The accents of educated city dwellers across the North of England are becoming more similar, according to new research from The University of Manchester. Linguistics expert Dr Patrycja Strycharczuk ...

Elspeth Morrison is an accent and voice coach who specialises in northern English accents.

Previous research into accent stereotypes in the US – that northern accents tend to mean “smart” and southern mean “nice” – found that children do not show these adult language ...