Accent bias row: Is there a snobbery towards Scots accents?

Accent bias row: Is there a snobbery towards Scots accents?

Edinburgh university staff are taking accent bias lessons to challenge the issue in lectures. But it's not just an education problem.

The Fascinating Origins of the Scottish Accent

Patrick Foote of Name Explain took a look at the origins of the very distinctive Scottish accent. While no land has a single accent, the varying degrees of English spoken in Scotland fall under the accent umbrella. The accents spoken in this neck of the woods, the Scottish accent may very well be one of the most recognizable accents on the planet pretty much everyone has heard it and pretty much everyone has attempted to impersonate it with var…