Researchers from the University of Cambridge tested people from around the UK to see how reliably they could separate an imposter accent from the real deal. Belfast, Geordie, and Glaswegian ...

Some can be difficult to distinguish from one another, while others like the more rounded voweled Belfast accent sounds very different from a Dublin accent. When put to the test, people from ...

You better knock off that awful attempt at a Scottish brogue, mate: A team of researchers has found that people in the northern United Kingdom and Ireland are especially good at telling when you ...

If that made residents of Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin better at detecting fake accents, the lack of conformity could explain why people from Essex, London, and Bristol are comparatively worse at it.

But the researchers said the results could be partially informed by how accents from Belfast, Glasgow, Dublin and north-east England have culturally evolved over the past several centuries.

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 ...

The team argues that the accents of speakers from Belfast, Glasgow, Dublin, and northeast England have changed more over the past several centuries than other accents. During this time, there have ...