Laurent Rigoulet
Laurent Rigoulet is a senior journalist at Télérama, where he has worked since 2000. Before joining the French cultural weekly, he spent 15 years writing for the sports and culture pages of Libération.
Updated: 5 January 2010
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By Laurent Rigoulet
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United Kingdom: Northern voices
5 January 2010Télérama Paris
Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds… in the United Kingdom, every northern town has its own particular accent. Stigmatized in the past, regional speech has now become a source of local pride. Even the BBC, a long-standing bastion of the linguistically correct, is now celebrating the phonetic diversity of British voices.