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Accentism and Academia

There is a bee in my bonnet and there has been for some time. This particular bee has been buzzing away since September of 2009, when I moved down to Exeter for university. Almost immediately I began experiencing a little problem known as accentism. As a Midlander choosing to attend a high-ranking university in the south, it was a problem I should perhaps have foreseen. There are many articles documenting the longstanding and widespread nature of…