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From the Geordie twang to the Edinburgh lilt, the UK is home to some of the most distinctive accents in the world. Now, experts have revealed which accents are the most difficult to understand.

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The Oxford English Dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as ‘the action or habit of estimating something as worthless’.