Journalist shares details of broadcaster’s dislike for Brummie accent as archives of her life and career to be cataloguedThe BBC had an unofficial league table of the most loved and despised accents, the war correspondent Kate Adie has revealed. And the most hated? Brummie.Geordie was liked, she told an audience in Sunderland, but from one end of the country to the other it was Birmingham that was particularly disliked. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/12/birmingham-accent-ranked-most-hated-bbc-unofficial-league-table-kate-adie
Author : Mark Brown North of England correspondent
Publish date : 2025-04-12 07:00:00
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