Globally, the youth literacy rate increased from 83 per cent to 91 per cent over two decades, while the number of illiterate youth declined from 170 million to 115 million. Regional and gender disparities persist, however. Literacy is lowest in least developed countries and higher among males than females.
In sociolinguistics, an accent (/ËÃ¦ksáµ»nt/ or /-Ént/) is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation.
With a second series of Birmingham-set drama Peaky Blinders in the pipeline, the show's creator Steven Knight has admitted the city's accent is very difficult to get right. What is it that makes it so hard to master, asks Brummie-accented Lucy Townsend. The accent frequently comes bottom in polls of people's favourites.