<p>Welcome back to Lexis. This is episode 75 and it’s a bumper edition. We pick up on a recent survey of teachers by Teacher Tapp about teachers’ accents and run with it…</p><p>We talk to teacher, Arun Sharma about his experiences, we interview Alex Baratta, Amanda Cole and Rob Drummond and we discuss the survey results in more detail and cover some other stories about accents in the news. </p><p>Teacher Tapp’s blog about this: <a href="https://teachertapp.com/articles/how-teachers-feel-about-their-accents/"><u>https://teachertapp.com/articles/how-teachers-feel-about-their-accents/</u></a> </p><p>Teacher Tapp: <a href="https://teachertapp.com/"><u>https://teachertapp.com/</u></a> </p><p>The stories we discuss in Lang in the News:</p><p><a href="http://archive.today/2025.09.23-223722/https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/sex-relationships/article/it-only-took-a-term-at-oxford-for-my-grimsby-accent-to-go-posh-z52g9pqfh"><u>http://archive.today/2025.09.23-223722/https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/sex-relationships/article/it-only-took-a-term-at-oxford-for-my-grimsby-accent-to-go-posh-z52g9pqfh</u></a> </p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/2025.10.05-173953/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/why-actors-are-ditching-queens-english-for-their-old-regional-accents-rtr29rcdt"><u>https://archive.ph/2025.10.05-173953/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/why-actors-are-ditching-queens-english-for-their-old-regional-accents-rtr29rcdt</u></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv638r2dglo?app-referrer=deep-link"><u>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv638r2dglo?app-referrer=deep-link</u></a></p><p><strong>Lexis is on Bluesky: </strong><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social"><strong>https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social</strong></a><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Contributors</strong></p><p><em>Lisa Casey</em> </p><p>blog: <a href="https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/"><u>https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/</u></a> &amp; Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LanguageDebates"><u>Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)</u></a></p><p><em>Dan Clayton</em> </p><p>blog: <a href="http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/"><u>EngLangBlog</u></a> &amp; Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social"><u>https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social</u></a> </p><p><em>Jacky Glancey</em> </p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey"><u>https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey</u></a></p><p><em>Raj Rana</em></p><p><em>Matthew Butler </em></p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA"><u>https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA</u></a> </p><p>Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys </p><p>Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys"><u>https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys</u></a> </p><p><br></p>