LL-L "Accents" 2005.02.21 (02) [E]

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From: "Grietje MENGER" <grietje at menger.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Accents" 2005.02.20 (03) [E]

> From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
>
> A friend was telling me recently that call centres in the UK like to
> employ people with Irish accents because they're more effective than
> British ones for calming down frustrated clients.
>
> Does this really happen? Does it really work? Which other accents of
> English and other Lowlands Languages are considered to have a calming
> effect?
>
Must be Republic Irish, and not Northern Irish, then. I always find
Northern Irish speakers sound very strident. Sometimes it is inherent to
the subject matter, but it also happens when talking about things
completely unrelated to the divide.

Grietje Menger
Scotland

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