Posts about: accents

Why some people lose their accents but others don’t – linguistic expert

Why some people lose their accents but others don’t – linguistic expert

The way a person speaks is an intrinsic part of their identity. It’s tribal, marking a speaker as being from one social group or another. Accents are a sign of belonging as much as something that separates communities. Yet we can probably all think of examples of people who seem to have “lost” their regional or […]…