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Globalisation & Local Accents - Mal on BBC

Added 25 November 2014

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A leading BBC journalist was recently offered money to take elocution lessons, because her accent comes from the north of England.

Will local accents be lost in the age of globalisation? Should people with distinct accents modulate or soften them to be understood (or befriended)?

Mal Fletcher addressed these questions in an interview with BBC Radio's Mike Parr.

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