Conscious or not, class bias often means people with regional accents lose them over time, writes Georgia Aspinall.A month into living in Essex for university, I called my sister to catch up. ‘Why the hell are you speaking like that?’ she asked me almost immediately – to which I had no reply. It’s not that I hadn’t realised my Scouse accent had slowly developed a southern twang, it’s more that I had no idea why.
Sometimes, though, it’s more subconscious. Because, when you’re from a city like Liverpool, you’re implicitly and explicitly judged to be working class whether you are or not – and therefore uncultured and unintelligent. Knowing these prejudices, Scousers are well aware that the strongest reminder of their home city – having a Scouse accent – may be doing them a disservice.
'Add to this the social pressures associated with regional accents in this country – so Standard Southern British English as the prestige, and regional accents frequently being discriminated against – then speakers with regional accents may feel the pressure to change. And women feel this pressure more, undoubtedly, as we’re judged so harshly on how we appear and come across.'
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