A poll conducted for ITV’s Tonight reveals that more than a quarter of Brits (28%) feel they have been discriminated against because of their regional accent with Londoners and Scots worst hit. The Liverpool accent was considered most unfriendly.
Voice coach Helen Ashton told ITV's Tonight programme there are laws that make it illegal to discriminate on many factors but an accent is not one of them.
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Ms Ashton was speaking after a poll for the ITV programme showed that more than a quarter of Britons felt they had been discriminated against because of the way they speak.
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