UK: Epidemic of accent envy and accent self-loathing</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="UK: Epidemic of accent envy and accent self-loathing"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="UK,Epidemic,of,accent,envy,and,accent,self-loathing"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">31-07-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>UK: Epidemic of accent envy and accent self-loathing</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (ic Cheshire): Given the chance to change the way they talk, most people from Cheshire would prefer to sound like the Queen. The problem is at its worst in Birmingham which tops the league of regions where people dislike their own accents. Tony Robinson, SpinVox linguistic expert: “It seems Cheshire is being gripped by an epidemic of accent envy and accent self-loathing.” <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_headline=we-don-8217-t-like-the-sound-of-our-own-voices&method=full&objectid=21424504&siteid=50020-name_page.html " target="blank">iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_headline=we-don-8217-t-like-the-sound-of-our-own-voices&method=full&objectid=21424504&siteid=50020-name_page.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show