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Why the Scots and Irish are the best at sniffing out a fake accent

Why the Scots and Irish are the best at sniffing out a fake accent

Update: 2024-11-20
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Time and again, actors seem to fail to make the grade when to comes to speaking in an Irish accent. According to research that has been published in the journal of Evolutionary Human Sciences, we Irish are particularly adept at figuring out a fake accent. To tell us more, one of the researchers Jonathan Goodman from the University of Cambridge.
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Why the Scots and Irish are the best at sniffing out a fake accent

Why the Scots and Irish are the best at sniffing out a fake accent

RTÉ Radio 1