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Foreign visitors to
the UK might be disappointed when they learn that not everyone there speaks
like Harry Potter and his friends. Usually, there's an assumption by many
non-Brits that everyone in Britain speaks with what's known as a Received
Pronunciation (RP, 标准发音) accent, also called "the Queen's English". However,
while many people do talk this way, most Britons speak in their own regional
accents.

Scouse, Glaswegian and Black Country—from
Liverpool, Glasgow and the West Midlands—are just three of the countless non-RP
accents that British people speak with. There are even differences in accents
between towns and cities just 30 kilometres apart. What is even more
disappointing is that not speaking in an RP accent may mean a British person is
judged and even treated differently in their everyday life.

In a 2015 study by the University of South
Wales, videos of people reading a passage in three different UK accents were
shown to a second group of people. The group then rated how intelligent they thought
the readers sounded. The lowest-rated accent was Brummie, native to people from
Birmingham, a city whose accent is considered the working class.