Leeds: Do we judge each other by our accents?

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A study has found that people with ‘posh’ accents are less likely to be found guilty, by a jury - do you think people judge others based on their accent, and how do you feel accents affect the way people are perceived in the UK?

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00:00I studied in Liverpool so I lived there for almost four years and accent was a massive thing over there

00:05in particular with people wanting access into the legal profession where they felt undermined due to

00:11the way they speak. I was made fun of when I was younger especially for the area that I grew up in

00:15saying she's got a posh accent and all of these things but as I got older and I was spending more

00:22time with my friends I kind of picked up the Yorkshire accent. When I've been traveling the UK

00:28the hardest accent to understand for me was from Glasgow. I think having a very strong posh southern

00:34accent sometimes is synonymous with being highly educated, quite successful and traditionally what

00:41you find up north is with the especially the Yorkshire accent seems to sometimes be the

00:46opposite. I think we are breaking through that. Probably that prejudice does exist with some

00:50people but it's like everything else you've got to work against it, you've got to see people

00:57for what they are not what you might think they are.

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