Regional Accent - BBC

Regional Accent BBC News Interview - Jo Cameron

• Celebrate regional accents
• Be clear with your message
• Wipe out or get rid of regional accents
• Regional accents as barriers
• Fit in with the people you're with. Depending on the environment you're in
• Tony Blair's accent
• Gordon Brown's Scottish accent
• People in business not taken seriously because of the their accent
• Slow down (Jo as an apprentice)
• I want to wine away my accent
• Scottish and Irish accent
• Soften your accent?
• They might not be able to understand you
• Sean Connery and his soft warm and gentle accent