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  • Why Do Some People Lose Their Accents While Others Don’t?

    Why Do Some People Lose Their Accents While Others Don’t?

    The way a person speaks is an intrinsic part of their identity. It’s tribal, marking a speaker as being from one social group or another. Accents are a sign of belonging as much as something that separates communities. Yet we can probably all think of examples of people who seem to have “lost” their regional…