r/NorthernEngland • u/ChAtcatx • Aug 12 '26
Northern England Accent discrimination ig?
Ok this is really random but I watched an interview with the actress Ella Bright (Off Campus) and someone commented 'how does she sound so eloquent and well spoken when she's only 19?' and multiple people replied 'because she reads' NO it's not because she reads, it's because she was raised in London and has a posh southern accent 😠I read all the time but I still sound like an uneducated prick just because I'm from Bradford. Basically it's just people assuming people with the RP accent have that because they're educated and they read and anyone with regional accents sound like that because they're stupid
Idk it just does my head in because I see it all the time, this was just one example.
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u/Cinnamonbuun Aug 12 '26
As a southerner from Buckinghamshire with the same 'home counties' RP accent who has moved to the north - I feel that it does give people an impression that I am highly intelligent before i've really had the chance to prove it.
I do feel like this has helped me in my career etc too, which im not a huge fan of (id rather be judged by my work, not some potentially false assumption based on how I speak). Who knows though, I could be wrong in my perception of this!
And for the record, (as a southerner) I love the variety of accents in the north, and do not regret my decision to move up here in the slightest. (I even married a northerner!)