People have multiple attitudes to accent that can make them very opinionated.
When people talk about accents they can have very strong views that not everyone agrees with. There are many accent over the UK that are very diffrent from one another, there are people with strong accents to their area or ones that are a mixture. A lot of people love their accent and how it is different from other places in UK and the thought of it spreading is a horrible thought.
We are judged by how we speak every day, whether its just in a conversation with friends or in a job interview. In the past accent were very separated and you could easily tell where they were from due to their dialect and accent. However, as social media is growing bigger the differences in dialect are becoming smaller and things that used to only be used in one place are now all over the UK. In this day an age those with the wronger accents are either old or they're trying to show pride in where they come from and showing it off whenever they talk to someone. People sometimes change their accents when speaking do different people whether its converging or diverging them.
A study in the west midlands show that people in places such as Liverpool, Bristol and Newcastle choose their dialect and accent forms self-consciously. Although people may change their accent they also may not want to completely discard them as some suggest that it is a connection to their family and home town.
Even though the strictness of accents have loosened up influential places still have a problem with some. An example is Granny Weatherwax said "my cousin being told when he got a job at the Natwest bank that if he didn't lose his Lincolnshire accent he would never do well in the company". This comment just shows that accents still play an important role in people lives. To some accents may not matter but to others it could show intelligence and that could be very important to employers.
