British accents can vary hugely — and face positive or negative stereotypes. Listen to these five British accents and see if you can hear the difference.

By Gemma KingIn two of the biggest films released this summer, Gladiator II and Nosferatu, most actors seem to be speaking like they’re in a Shakespeare play – even though their characters are based ...

Study finds that those who speak with received pronunciation are least likely to be perceived as criminal, unlike Scousers ...

Somewhat unsurpisingly, men with posh English accents were rated as the least ... Newcastle and Standard Southern British English (SSBE). They then recruited 180 people from all over the UK ...

Whereas people with a “posh” Standard Southern British English (SSBE) accent, also referred to as received pronunciation (RP), Queen’s English or BBC English, are seen to be most likely to ...

as gaming often defaults British accents to either Received Pronunciation (see: posh), or overtly cockney, like Tracer from Overwatch. Despite being a relatively small collection of islands ...

Where does this false British accent come from? Hollywood has long resorted to this posh-but-unspecific English accent when telling stories set in European spaces where English isn't the native ...