A recent study found that people with a “posh” accent are less likely to be found guilty by a jury, do you think people are prejudged on their North East accents and how do you think accents in general are previewed around the UK?
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00:00I've been brought up with the thing is you just shouldn't judge someone you
00:03should always like respect and I look like look after someone and you treat
00:06them how you want to be treated so I definitely the whole aspect of like
00:10mocking someone because of how they speak it's not on them they can't change
00:13how they speak they've been brought up in a certain place and that's how they've
00:16they've developed that accent you can't change your accent I think I think yeah
00:22I think posh people like they'd be checked like more respectfully I think
00:28accents image background anything a lot of people are quite judgy all the time
00:35I've worked with a lot of people from different walks of life so I kind of
00:39understand that people live differently and you know as long as you're not
00:42hurting anyone you know live live the way you want to live but yeah people you
00:47know you'll say southern softie if they've got a soft accent or the only
00:51drink shandy you know there is all the little jokes and it's just but it's one
00:55of them things that's happened for years we're just more aware of how to
00:59sort of deal with it