🔗 Fiona Hill, Boris Johnson and the tyranny of the plummy British accent - FT
Fiona Hill, Boris Johnson and the tyranny of the plummy British accent - from the Financial Times
Accent discrimination is standard in Britain. In a poll by ComRes and ITV in 2013, 28 per cent reported experiencing it. Recruiters favour the 3 per cent of Britons who speak “the Queen’s English”, says Lance Workman, psychologist at the University of South Wales.