Northerners, Scots and Irish excel at detecting fake accents to guard against outsiders, study suggests

Nov 19, 2024

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. People from Belfast proved most able to detect someone faking their accent, while people from London, Essex and Bristol were least accurate.