This is a podcast about people and how they talk. About why there is no such thing as bad grammar, no language is more important than any other language, and every voice is valid.

Dr Sadie Ryan started making Accentricity while she was doing a PhD in linguistics at the University of Glasgow. She wanted to use podcasting to explore the connections between who we are and how we speak, and to bridge the gap between academic knowledge about language and people’s everyday linguistic experiences. She enlisted the help of producer John McDiarmid, and started recording interviews on her phone, learning the skills she needed and upgrading her equipment as she went. In January 2019 she launched Accentricity.

Since then the podcast has gained international recognition, and over 31,000 listeners per month across 93 countries. It has been used as a teaching resource in schools, universities and language classrooms in the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Poland, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Australia. It was featured by The Bello Collective in their worldwide list of the 100 best podcasts of 2019. In May 2020, it was shortlisted for Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards, and in July 2020 it won Steady’s Independent Media Academy Award.

To keep up-to-date, you can follow @accentricitypod on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. You can find transcripts on this website, and videos with human-written subtitles on Youtube.