Johnson: Accents: The last acceptable prejudice | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/01/johnson-accents?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/lastacceptableprejudice
Last month, I attended an international academic conference. During a conversation with a colleague, I was introduced to a doctoral student from a UK Russell Group university.
Without a ’hello’, a ’nice to meet you’ or any of the other pleasantries you’d expect to hear during a professional introduction, this woman looked in my eyes and said, straight-faced, in a booming fake Yorkshire accent: “I’n’ti’?”
After delivering her mockery of my dialect (I hadn’t actually used that phrase), she looked away and continued speaking to my male (non Northern) colleague in a perfectly normal tone and her own accent.