Birmingham accent ranked ‘most hated’ on BBC’s unofficial league table, Kate Adie reveals
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6WJT0)
Journalist shares details of broadcaster's dislike for Brummie accent as archives of her life and career to be catalogued
The 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.
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