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The BBC ranked the accent of individuals from one among Britain’s greatest cities the ‘most hated’ within the nation on a secret league desk, a former conflict correspondent for the channel claimed. Kate Adie, a veteran of reporting from conflicts everywhere in the globe, stated accents have been a “complex matter” for the UK and the way somebody speaks impacts how they’re acquired.

Ms Adie, who served because the BBC’s Chief News Correspondent from 1989 till 2003, was talking on the University of Sunderland the place an archive of fabric from her profession is being catalogued. The Telegraph reviews the 79-year-old stated: “Years and years ago, the BBC had an unofficial league table of the most liked and the most hated accents. The view was that some of them drove people nuts up and down the country.

The newspaper said that when Ms Adie invited her audience to guess which accent was least liked, a chorus of the same answer came in reply.

“Birmingham” the crowd reportedly answered in unison.

Continuing her speech, she added: “From one end of the country to another, it’s Birmingham! Michael Buerk, who comes from Birmingham, was once asked why he didn’t use the accent. He said:‘I didn’t want death threats’.”

Ms Adie, who’s initially from the North East of England, stated that the accent from her own residence area was typically thought of to be “well liked”.

Express.co.uk have contacted the BBC for remark.

The iconic information reporter was talking on the occasion at Sunderland University the place an archive of greater than 2,300 objects, “including dozens of notebooks, video clips, tapes, letters, and photographs” is held.

Speaking about her life’s work being documented in her house metropolis, Adie stated: “My life was shaped by my childhood in Sunderland, and I’ve wanted to show some of the very happy memories, starting at home in Tunstall Park and including two bomb fragments, embedded in our sideboard, which thankfully arrived two years before my appearance.

“A reporter does not usually have much time to collect souvenirs, so it’s an eclectic collection, but I hope it represents the extraordinarily varied stories I’ve covered, from wars to royal garden parties.”

The BBC has been contacted for remark.