People from Scotland, Ireland and north-east England are better at being able to spot a fake accent than those from the South, a study has found. Dr Jonathan R Goodman, corresponding author of the ...

The study, published 24 September in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, found that in most cases people tend to be more tolerant towards someone with a foreign accent for ...

“We think that the ability to detect fake accents is linked to an area’s cultural homogeneity, the degree to which its people hold similar cultural values,” he said a statement. The social ...

Northerners, Scottish and Irish people "excel" at detecting fake accents - to guard against outsiders, according to a new study. Cambridge University researchers found that people from Belfast were ...

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Native English speakers appear to be more forgiving of grammatical errors if the person speaking or writing has a foreign accent. (© Charles-Édouard – stock.adobe.com) “With English being spoken ...