{"id":5278,"date":"2026-08-16T14:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:44:34","slug":"they-were-competing-for-supremacy-which-is-the-oldest-english-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5278","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They were competing for supremacy&#8217;: Which is the oldest English accent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20260708-which-is-the-oldest-english-accent\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"&#039;They were competing for supremacy&#039;: Which is the oldest English accent?\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ychef.files.bbci.co.uk\/624x351\/p0nxknwn.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.bbc.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">&#8216;They were competing for supremacy&#8217;: Which is the oldest English accent?<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Two BBC journalists go on a quest to find out whose accent is older \u2013 and uncover a dramatic history filled with hidden twists and surprises.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5279,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}