Can we defeat linguistic discrimination? According to studies, it can take just 30 milliseconds of speech for listeners to build their first assumptions about the speaker. But bias about accents and dialects still runs deep.
Don’t be an accent snob warns top uni
Pride and prejudice: On Love Island (latest UK cast above) speakers with accents that are thought of as funny, friendly, and attractive (such as Welsh, Scottish and Newcastle accents) get off lightly — but the Liverpool accent is unpopular. Glossary
Sociolinguist - Relating to the study of how language is used by different groups in society, or how language is affected by social factors.
Consensus - General agreement. It was originally a Latin word.
Dialect - A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
Prestige - Respect or admiration given to something.