THE University of Essex has joined forces with c2c Rail and young women from Southend to celebrate the Essex accent. The Accent Essex project is part of ongoing research by Dr Tara McAllister-Viel ...

Accentism – discriminating against someone because of their accent – has a long history in the UK, where the way someone speaks is often an easy way to tell their social class. People with ...

Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchel in the BBC soap opera Eastenders. BBC Or maybe you think of Dame Barbara Windsor, who died on December 9. She was a cockney icon, born in 1937 in Shoreditch, east ...

As English dialects go, cockney is one of the most influential. Long considered the preserve of working-class communities in east London, it has shaped the way people speak across the country, from ...