Elspeth Morrison is an accent and voice coach who specialises in northern English accents.

However, accents from Liverpool and Newcastle were a lot more distinct. The researchers also analysed individual vowel sounds, and compared them to traditional descriptions of different northern ...

For example, the standard past tense of ‘I am’ is ‘I was’. However, in some dialects in northern England, speakers might say ‘I were’. There isn’t a right and a wrong here ...