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Aug 2017
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Why does the UK have so many accents? (R...

Luke Thompson
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This episode was originally recorded in February 2017 and is being uploaded in August 2017. In this episode I’m going to answer several questions from listeners about accents, including how regional accents occur in the UK and why there are so many accents there. Video available.

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